But I guess that is a gamble and would the owner see it that way.

They also don't take land they've invested a great deal of time and money developing and gamble it by placing it into a venture as you are describing. 

I get tons of spam and even phone calls of them trying to sucker me to buy their "state of the art software".

If you are going to gamble on the STR play, I would be sure the property will cash flow as a long term or you are willing to deal with the vacancies of a mid term.

The call and text spam you just unleashed on yourself is going to kill you. 

Currently dialing anywhere from 5k - 20k phone numbers per week, and we have come to a point where we need to figure out how to check our numbers for (spam likely) flags.CURRENTLY we are using calltools.

The are you can gamble on is Clark Fulton, still a lower class are but MetroHealth is injecting $1b into the area, so with time the area will gentrify and values will go up even more.

Not something to gamble on, but it's possible.Enter Opendoor.

So... there's a gamble here for sure.

I get ALL of my email...spam and all and then block the emails if I don't want them contacting me again...so it wasn't in spam.