What would you do if you were to buy a tire shop or a bakery in Texas?

You can really drill down to specifics to get the exact target prospects that you're looking for (i.e. absentee owners, pre-foreclosure, owners with a good amount of equity, landlords who have owners for +30 years and could be tired of landlording).

Tired older landlords that have been self-managing forever are great for seller-carries as well.Put in the time to research folks in pain.  

I would also look for a unit which is a little tired (i.e elderly owner or estate) which you can obtain at a discount to the market and clean it up yourself to rent ... lowering your cost basis in the process.You might consider skipping the second condominium and proceeding directly to a duplex/triplex/quadraplex.  

I am getting tired of hearing about these types of people and I'm afraid it only seems to get worse as the market improves and more people jump into real estate.  

I am tired of one mortgage, one insurance payment, one accounting for a SINGLE property -- I'd rather do the same for a larger apartment.Anchorage has been in a recession since late 2015.. there is job contraction and I think a small population loss.. numbers still SEEM to pencil out, and vacancies are still very low.

Going forward I'm not even going to have stoves...Im tired of cleaning them. 

I am sort of tired of reading but know that i should continue learning. 

Tired landlords are generally motivated to sell as well and can pick up killer deals that way.

Market to out of state owners (since they're more likely to be tired of their properties), market towards divorcees, administrators, executors, attorneys that handle estates, etc.I'd also ask Realtors and ask for properties that were on the market so long they were about to put the properties up for rent, things like that.Outside of the this target marketing, I'd always have the word out I was looking for properties whether it was through word of mouth, bandit signs, craigslist or newspaper ads, etc.