First steps to apartment investing and finding owners

[Patrick Flanagan]

Hello
My next step in my investing career is buying a smaller apartment building. My time frame for buying is next year. I'm looking for off market deals. What do you think is the best way to get a hold of potential apartment owners? I find a lot of apartments on propstream but I don't know how to sift through all the LLC, trusts and corporations. My goal is to contact and have a sit down meeting or phone call with the owners. So before my goal of buying a place next year is to sit down with as many apartment owners as I can.

Any tips? 
thanks,

Pat