The most scalable, efficient way to hunt for off-market deals

[Kyle Soudalan]

Besides "networking" and "knowing your market by talking to everyone in it", I am interested in efficient processes for speeding up one's search.

I get a lot of letters in the mail, texts, and phone calls from wholesalers and others trying to buy one of my properties. I know they found my info by checking county assessor offices, but is this the best way to find out who owns a property? It seems tedious when hunting for deals to:

1. Go to a local assessor's office / county's website,
2. Click around until you find the "Property Search" section (since every county has a different website/database),
3. Enter the address you're interested in,
4. Click around until you find the name of the owner (if not hidden behind some LLC),
5. Try to find them online if some PII (e.g. phone number) is not listed,
6. Reach out to the owner with an offer.

It seems painfully slow and inefficient for wholesalers and others looking for off-market deals to do this. If you were hunting for deals like this in a few select counties/markets, how would you optimize this process?