As for sources, in my area, there are businesses who specialize is refurbished items or surplus supplies. 

You may be able to expense some items that are normally thought to need capitalization.

Based on the criteria you listed, I think our market may be perfect for you.

To those who self-manage luxury rentals and are not licensed real estate professionals, are you concerned about your listing (listed by owner) attracting scammers?

., Checkout my asset protection tier list: Worst: – No coverage, held in your name.

And lots of data. 10 million listings worth of data per day to be exact.What is actually happening?

You can use software like propstream or something similar to pull lists of all 2-4 unit properties in your target areas.

I ransacked the internet and found my home address listed as active/available to show" the listing was published Jan7th and the went inactive/unavailable/expire listing on the date FEB 5th and the request to show the townhome was FEB 6TH  SAhe did the inspection the week prior and likely report the townhome almost move in ready to the landlor and then suddenly my inspection guy that did my "move-out-inpection" was in their for a second opinion and the her property management said "oh that was not your move-out inspection.

Check out their listing HERE.

Looked through Zillow and sent a list of interesting properties to the realtor that helped me get my second home.