It's hard to stand out.There are some owner-occupied segments with people who share motivating factors for selling their home.Seniors with Long-time Ownership: often ready to downsize or transition to assistance.Homeowners with Low Financial Stability Scores (FSS): Struggling financially and likely ready to cash in on their asset.Both these categories have additional advantages in that they probably don’t haven’t been updated and may have deferred maintenance.

As we scale our portfolio, we intend to switch some of our STR's to MTR's to take advantage of this growing segment, and have our rentals become more passive.I think it all depends on what your strategy will be.  

I don't mean to put any one segment down, but people should know the differance between someone dedicated to the commercial real estate market and someone who thinks they know what they are talking about.

Zillow is about at the point where they have trumped Realtor.com in some real estate segments, like rental properties.

But for the most part this segment is underserved and ignored by the agent community.

No reptiles is for the same reason as no rodents.That being said ESA (emotional support animals) might cause me to have to embrace a much larger segment of the animal kingdom.  

I bet that once you segment the data by property type (multifamily vs single family), you get more variance, and I bet that the decline in multifamily rents is much larger than the decline in single family or small multifamily rents. 

If so, why would limit your potential buyer pool to a small segment of the population?

I live in a VERY rural area so drive-bys here aren't really an option and driving 45 minutes to get to higher density areas so I can drive doesn't really fit into my investing plan.So, I've got a bookmark for it and when I get some free time, I'll go through the next few segments.

That just increases my exposure to a segment that I'm already overly exposed to.Just my two cents.