If you told him you have been playing pickup games for the past year and need help improving your jump shot, now he has evidence you're motivated and a specific goal he can quickly help you work towards.

Facebook can also be STUPIDLY powerful for selling flips, networking (which you should be doing on Biggerpockets as well), and generating motivated seller leads. 

I am looking into the approach of finding absentee owners or more motivated sellers.Originally posted by @Curtis Chen:I'm currently not looking for rentals out of state so couldn't help you there, if you read about a great area somewhere it's probably already too late haha, going to be focusing on chasing down off market deals around Scal. 

The followings are some detail and motivations behind it:Why delegate on-demand for a fee?

Right now I am based in Aberdeen, WA and am extremely motivated to purchase my first property, specifically a multi-family.

What also struck me as weird were 'for sale by motivated seller' signs outside each of their properties and they wouldn't answer why the signs were placed.

  $100 to get a little motivation seems like a decent deal.  

It's not in great condition but owner doesn't have the funds or the motivation to fix the property and sell it herself, but she is also hesitant to sell it to us as-is.

Part of my motivation is seeing the impact of housing scarcity and affordability in California.Currently exploring 'lower cost' entry points into development - specifically opportunities to buy SFH or 2-4 unit MF and add 1 or more ADUs, in LA county.Anyone have experience with ADU additions as an investment strategy?

You would be surprised by how many people you find who are highly motivated.