I kow every seller has their motives/reasons, but have any of you guys found certain terms that work more times than not?

Do not mail to 100K doors when you only need to mail to 3K motivated doors.

Hope this gives you a bit of motivation and direction to take efficient action and not just any action.Monkeybutt has spoken!

@Alex Bradley hey man I'm a wholesaler too, and I'll be honest no one answered your question, the mailers CAN work but they most likely won't where you live, competition is ridiculous, getting in touch with people before anyone else is the key, I would check your county recorders website every morning for motivated seller, like pre forclosures and private and tax liens and then skip trace them with a really good skip tracer like lexisnexis or irb, crap like white pages or spoke can be useful once in a while but rarely has accurate info, to get that you need to spend, and that's what I would advise spending on, put those lists together daily with your wife and skip trace them and call them on a mojo dialer that day, and where you're done maybe do door knocking or d4d, but creativity is really important good luck brother, add me on Facebook Riley Neilson, I own luxe painting on there still I think, or flying n llc, I can't remember

So there's not usually anywhere near enough of a margin for on-market properties.There are cases where that's not true, for example where the seller might be very motivated (and have enough equity to be willing to come down significantly from market value), but those are somewhat difficult to find, especially in this market where anything that has a hint of being priced below market or any kind of seller motivation tends to get scooped up pretty quickly.It's more difficult to get a good deal on a property that doesn't need work, simply because you don't have that to justify making an aggressively low offer (one low enough to give you enough margin to wholesale it).As with getting a great deal off the MLS, it's certainly possible, but it's less likely and is a bit of an uphill battle.

Either you’ll get that one super-motivated seller out of 500, or you’ll cultivate that on-the-cusp motivated seller in 100.

Evictions are done at the county level, Office of the Special Civil Part, so not generally influenced by municipality sentiment.3.

I'm a motivated, first-time investor looking for my first multifamily deal in the greater Detroit area, but have had no luck searching online here from San Francisco, where I currently live and work. 

While the taxes are a cost that has to be figured in, the risk of total or significant loss to the owner is a big motivating factor.

This isn't a motivated seller.