I'm new to this process so please excuse me if I sound ignorant on some parts.

A lie told in ignorance is still a lie. 

I have been studying this space over the last few months and a lot of GPs rely on the ignorance of investors (about their failures, inexperience, unrealistic underwriting assumptions or their unreasonable fees) to take more people's money. 

I used  to list two weeks in advance and ignore the first two weeks inquiries.

Ignore the past. 

And while that is a worthwhile goal, it ignores that fact that, even without cashflow, investing in a vacation rental will likely beat the pants off of your IRA contribution, which oh, by the way, isn't "cash flowing" either.Let's do a comparison:With your IRA, assume you are 45 years old, have $100,000 in it, and are committed to contributing $12,000 per year for the next 15 years.

Ignorance is bliss.

(That's fraud)It also involves stripping equity from property owners who are either ignorant of the true value or in such a desperate situation that they'll take a bad deal just to get out of it. 

Running numbers should have you running away from deals, not ignoring the numbers to still get the deal done.You can learn a lot by listening, but you can also start to tell he does a LOT of things that no one should ever do, and makes up for it by having huge volume. 

The reason you are not having luck is because a very obvious logic yet completely ignored principle real estate investors refuse to acknowledge.Here goes.NOTHING can target motivated sellers.No list, no gadget no software no "Deal Machine", no propstream no NOTHING!