Best practice to find vacant properties for wholesale / rehab

[John Dodenhoff]

Hello BP! I have been driving through neighborhoods in Horry County, SC (Myrtle Beach) for a few weeks and found around 74 homes that looked vacant. We skip traced the address/owner's name, there were about 65. When it was all said and done, there were around 15 viable vacant homes. Is there a preferred way to acquire a list of these homes? Driving around is OK and all, but it isn't giving me the desired results... I just don't want to invest too much time and energy into a practice that doesn't bear fruit if there is an alternative.