Hopefully this is useful information, might be worth cruising around the area on Google Street View to get an idea.

Now I never see him because he’s on some cruise in some part of the world I’ve never even heard of.

I have lived in Madrid Spain, Milan and Verona Italy, and was based in Yokohama Japan for a year and a half while working on a Crystal Cruise ship cruising the world.

While cruising listings I came across a guy who is selling 2 off-campus student houses for about ~330k each that he has been running for about 10-15 years and wants to cash out. 

I like to make yearly goals in each area of my life but here I will share only some of my real estate goals for 2020: Sell 19% of one of my real estate companies for 400K.Separate my business finances better by taking 250k of that money and pay off business debt from my other businesses that I have used to fund the acquisition of properties in my main real estate business.Use the other 150k to continue purchasing properties in the Triad area of North Carolina.Purchase 36 single family properties (24 in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point, and 12 in Arizona) and lease them out using the lease option strategy.Purchase a 30 pad mobile home park with 10 units already rented and an additional 20 pads available to rent out, improve advertising and double the value of the park and basically BRRRR the mobile home park.Go on the Investor Summit at Sea real estate cruise with the Real Estate Guys, Robert Helms and Russell Grey.Bring on one or two more assistants to lighten our work load and systematize our businesses better.Appear on 10 more podcasts to increase brand awareness in order to raise money for our real estate deals.Get 20 real estate coaching clients and help them acquire their first, second, or third property.Increase cash flow by another 5k this year.

While it sounds great, paying taxes before the money is yours is not the cruise I would sign-up for and holding money in escrow, geez, how fun is that? 

I found this deal cruising Loopnet - used a local agent to submit the offer and negotiate.

I was just cruising the forums and saw a group was forming in my area.  

The alternative is the management company who is so well established they get lazy and put everything on cruise control. 

The ones I do find usually do not look vacant or if they do are not distressed.I am aware that the odds are against me as they simply exist in smaller quantities and are highly sought after but are there any unique strategies for tracking down those multi's when cruising for cash flow?