We're just talking about the dangerous stuff that makes people sick and post on BP forums about it.

Motivated sellers are found by culling smaller lists and building relationships with the people you call with a more fine-tuned approach.

You may also run afoul of local/state laws against people that contact people in foreclosure to buy their home.

Many if not most people don't think about this. 

Part of the value of the STR is that we will plan to use this property 4-8 times per year.The property is a few hours from the major metro that I live in, and is a vacation destination for lots of people in my area.

If you are able to network with someone that can give you consistent deal flow and partner with people that will provide the funding you will be in really good shape.

People like to fight on me on this and there can be exceptions, but for a ton of different reasons, they dont normally make great investments. 

At a high level, this is generally the path people take - we see a lot of people have success in this route - start building the portfolio with banks, low down payments, and then **generally** when you hit around 5 or so properties - it starts to make sense to switch over to LLCs, its too hard to qualify/deal with paperwork of banks and switch towards private lenders like DSCR Loans - (LLC friendly, easier) to scale past 5 or so.

A lot of people try a flip with a family and then their family is not happy when they are never home.

If he offends again, you may be held liable.