I would skip buying lists altogether.

@Michael Cheng, ok lets skip the part about in Bay Area vs OOS or OOA. 

What's the best/cheapest way to skip trace phone numbers from houses i find from driving for dollars?

Or did you skip that option altogether, and just work with wholesalers?

Don't skip a tax professional's help on this one.

Look them up on Whitepages.com or through any skip tracing service of your choosing.

As in how much did you buy it (plus certain costs, but we can skip that to some extent now) vs how much it sales for?

I attended a Commercial Brokers Real Estate Breakfast a few months back and Ada Healey, Vice President of Real Estate at Vulcan shared that they've only built three condo projects in their history, and they lost money on all three of them. 

And now, my first post and I'm ready to get started.I have my appropriate lists that have been skip traced and I'm going to begin dialing tomorrow.

and skip the lawyer...save your money for the rehab!!