It's hard to stay motivated and productive if you don't appreciate the merit of your work.

The fact that you have very little equity is a positive but holding on to a property with thin to possibly negative cash flow is not much motivation to keep it.What is the market value of the home.

Apparently there are about 20 times as many motivated sellers over there than here in AsheVegas. 

Nice motivation for us new guys.

I am writing a soup to nuts book and you seem to fit the profile of my " highly motivated beginner investor"a little debtgood credityoung familyno rich relatives fully employedso if you will please share with me:your current home status?

Do you the names of the deceased children or the heir's shoot them a postcard to motivate them  

Ethan Summers true that's makes sense so your saying be persistent and I know you like that means doing the same thing constantly once it work what are some things that you used to get motivated sellers attention?

Can someone point me to the correct forum to learn some awesome marketing techniques to find motivated sellers?

You also need to be looking at their motivation.  

@Matt Heerwald  One thing you should also understand about San Antonio is that it has numerous military installations.