I renovate 50+ houses/year through the BRRRR / Flip methods and also help dozens of agents do the same.

Their method of “forced appreciation” is kind of interesting.

Have your attorney send your contractor a letter explaining your dissatisfaction, any legal, ethical, or moral violations his operating methods result in, and making him an offer BELOW your “target” amountbest of luck I have an attorney that I considered speaking with on this matter, but I’m not sure that he specializes in things like this.

I'm looking to possibly flip or use the BRRR method to build a portfolio. 

Every marketing direct to seller method out there works. 

Over the past three years, I’ve been using most of the major off-market techniques.One standout method has always been pulling data and feeding it into a call center to generate off-market leads.

Quote from @Audrey Sommer: The best method is to syndicate to many platforms.

This may actually be the best method to prevent the sale from being discovered, but of course there are other potential pitfalls.Under federal law a transfer to a trust where the grantor retains the beneficial interest WOULD be exempt from the DOS... but notice how in the context outlined above the exemption would disappear.

I have found some options which seemed ideal in sync with the BRRRR method, however from looking on sites like Zillow and Redfin, there just seems to be so many available options, for nice rentals and good rates, so would it even be ideal to buy in the area if it would be so difficult if even possible to find a tenant?

This crude method ignores all the other debt payments tenants have.