Foreclosure lists I think can be determined at some sites like propstream (I've never used it so I could be wrong).3: networking with lawyers that do probate situation and/or divorce situations and want a quick close4: Owner occupant of a property on Hud Homestore - basically trying to help first time homebuyers buy - less competition5: tax auction and tax auction sites6: Offering on properties that have been sitting on the MLS for LONG periods of time and low balling them.7: Calling owners that have recently had their property pulled from the MLS.8: Wholesalers that are selling to you with an assignment fee.9: Low balling every property you look at on the MLS and seeing what sticks.10: FSBO with strong negotiation skills.11: MLS when you see the property really quick once it comes on MLS and put in a full price offer but it was mispriced low (I got a gem a few years ago that has probably close to doubled in values since 2020 when I bought it).12: MLS offers that you really want to ownI might be missing some others but these are the general classes of people that I have noticed. 

All good insights but you need to be getting your advice from someone that has scaled to multiple states from ZERO.

Nearly 90% of our Turo traffic is airport traffic and our utilization across multiple cars averages out to 70% annual utilization so a competitively priced Airbnb in close proximity seems like a good strategy to me.

@Angela Crockett -  Hi Angela, this situation seems a little fishy to me -- be careful.   

I think the world is moving towards a need for a person to have to have multiple streams of income even if one wants to buy Real Estate. 

Your particular situation, aspirations, and tastes will determine whether or not you decide to buy a single-family house.Good luck!

However your situation becomes a trickier case study since these properties first served as your primary residence which could provide additional benefits form a tax perspective not available to an owner of investment real estate and nobody has a crystal ball and knows the property with certainty will transition into an investment property. 

As one who has funded literally 1000s of bRRRs for clients over the last 22 years.. it just makes me sick when one of them has to deal with these situations and or inner city stripping of houses and theft.

Looking for any advice on the inspection, handling the situation or your experience with how harsh they are during the inspection.

That way you can turn around and do a sale lease back on the building, recapture your capitol and execute essentially a BRRRR  with your own business and property.Generally though many properties that will be the ideal locations for a restaurant will likely not be available for sale, they tend to be ideal single tenant free standing buildings that are quite desirable and have many end users that would be interested.Something you don't want to do in this situation is to make sacrifices on the location/market of your restaurant just to purchase the property.