Jeryll advocates using SEO and having the motivated sellers contact you rather than trying to identify the motivated sellers via any metrics or lists.My view is the primary difference is he uses a web page while mailers, text etc rely on the motivated sellers calling them   Also, you do not need to find many great deals.  

Here's a list of the 15 things we've identified that every STR needs.1 - An extremely detailed HOUSE MANUAL to make it easy for guests to follow the rules and enjoy themselves.

STR and MTR are still intensive, but we have a market well suited for this and have identified many investors from the Bay Area using this strategy.

Will your identified markets be an easy or difficult area to sell once it’s time?

The longer Airbnb is around the more items will be identified like this to "carve out" so they dont align. 

The study identifies with forensic engineering detail the immediate Bonus Depreciation 5, 7 and 15-year personal property class lives qualifying portions of a building that are normally buried in 27.5 year residential or 39 year commercial categories.

The property must be in an area that the government has identified as an Opportunity Zone.You must have short or long term capital gains. 

You've already identified where you want to be and what type of RE you want to do...so those are 2 huge goals that you've identified right off the bat.All it takes now is money to get into the game.

If you don't have investor lift in your budget you have to utilize tools like propstream, or batch leads to identify who's paying cash for properties.

Identify someone you would want as a mentor.