Gas + convenience store, where the gas sales are mainly a tool to draw customers into the C-store. 

I'll refi in 12 months utilizing the built in equity plus what I earn this year to avoid a huge down payment. 

As a purchaser, I really like when a property already has utilities that are split but I wouldn't pay a 20K premium to do it. 

The easiest way to do this outside of some sort of scraping tool (which i recommend digging into), is to develop a solid list of ways to look for deals (not just zillow or mls), and then develop a super specific buy box, then just create custom filters with notifications where applicable, you can also use a VA to look through the various acquisition methods and send you a vetted list every day. 

We are living in Phuket Thailand currently and this year I utilized the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion to not pay taxes on the first 120k of income. 

I have never used the service so I can't speak to the quality of leads or the customer buying experience.

@Owen Fogarty I just give my customers a Google Sheet template to do the accounting for flip income and expenses.

It's possible that they are turning up the heat to the maximum because they are part of a utility-subsidized bill program.

My friend @Andrew Bosco specializes in medium term rentals (it should be similar furnishings to STR) and has a pretty sweet checklist that he utilizes for furnishing the property.

I do have cash reserve invested which I wanted to utilize and acquire properties so that this becomes my primary business line and yes, I do have cash flow because my spouse is earning.