It works best with motivated sellers, it's almost like I'm handing them a bag of cash and their problem is solved and they can move on with their life.  

From a business standpoint, I always recommend separating your STR financials into a dedicated checking account. 

"M" is common vernacular in the financial industry for "Thousands". 

If you do not sell before a financial bump in though road occurs it will be too late and you will likely lose it all.

We’ve passes on applicants with good financial profiles who wanted to make changes to the lease or the apartment because, as qualified as they were otherwise, they were not willing to rent under our terms.

I would suggest age 50 or 60-89, 20+ year ownership, single family home and specify a home value range.You can also specify Low Financial Stability Scores to find people who are more likely to be motivated sellers.

I am hoping this will increase my holdings and reach my financial goals in a shorter time period than residential.

I worked my way through college as a teller at Pnc bank for 5 years, which gave me a a solid financial knowledge foundation.

Here's my plan:I want to be financially independent by selling my personal residence and investing the proceeds to pay my living expenses.If I net 180k from the sale and use 10k toward the downpayment on my next residence, I'll have 170k left to invest.

There's been cases when someone bought  dozens of properties subject to, fell behind on all of them because of tenant problems on some of the properties, resulting in dozens of motivated sellers, thinking they solved the problem dumping the problem on a rescuer, losing their homes, and having bad credit to boot.There were extensive discussions on real estate boards regarding the issue: Subject_to_problemsIf you're taking about a 2 year master lease, maybe you're thinking of leasing with option to buy.