@Patrick MeadeI would first go the TREC route as this will get her Broker's attention.

It really gets their attention AND a great way to smoke out who is interested in selling and if your price works. 

Pay special attention if you are interested in older properties, look for any underground oil tanks.

We recently ran into an issue whereby adding walls drew enough outside attention that our project got shut down and an engineer had to be brought in to provide drawings for the space (cost us $5K) even after the walls were already up!

If we like the job then we will bid it and that gets a lot more off the table because we're not the cheapest by a mile (we do higher end renos with a lot of attention to detail and custom work).

It's really sad "gurus" are preaching to new investors (and syndicators) that MFRE is "recession-proof" for the sake of increasing their reach, followers, viewers and/or investor database.

So I could hire someone to run it during the days but with that and mortgage that pretty well soaks up the profit.I have already considered ways of increasing profit:-Update systems for online reservation-look into marketing to bring more attention to the motel- and currently they are not doing well health wise so they haven't been trying to get any more business than necessary.But I am looking for ideas on how I could manage to make this property profitable for me.

It comes down to paying attention to the market, investing in a way the market will reward, and knowing how the specific investment is (condition, location, etc) so you know what’s price makes sense. 

Hi BP As I’ve been struggling with attaining finance as an Australian citizen looking into the US, it’s come to my attention that so many fellow Australians would love to invest in the US but wouldn’t do so due to the difficulties in getting finance.

I feel like anything can work as long as it actually gets you the attention of the lead you are targetting.