I like the idea that Kim brings up about doing destination Airbnb targeted at hunters if it would have others who frequent the area outside of hunting season. 

Given the volume of threads on private Realtor social media groups that consist of "omg I didn't realize until the 11th hour that the buyer's commission was only 1.5%!

Both are good and we started out researching markets to target and later transitions to finding the deals and the.

Search #'s with real estate related key words on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, anything social media; hit them up.

@Paul Sandhu is of course on target.....We had a couple of young ladies staying at one of our places a week ago, and they liked to party.....so do we, so a couple of long nights ensued...we even went out to dinner together!

You've just defined the reason socialism has failed every time it's been tried. 

One thing that I learned as a small time Investor is that it would have been so much easier if I had targeted just one neighborhood to "farm" at that time when prices had been stagnant for ten years and everything was for sale without any premiums.

We would like to be able to establish a healthy target to save for the downpayment, closing cost, and rehab so we have the funds we need to do the work that needs to be done.Any general rules of thumb or general guidelines would be extremely helpful.

Typically those are people who have been very successful in real estate.You might be pretty busy, but if you can even get a part time job working for an agent, investor, or successful real estate person in the area you want to focus, that would be good....doing trashouts, changing locks, putting out signs, helping with open houses, making sure the flyer boxes are full, delivering documents, doing social media for someone.You could start building your social media channel now....interview lenders, inspectors, title company people, investors, etc.

Which data sets, generally, do you think are most helpful for finding target markets?