If it's public record shouldn't it be free as long as we ourselve put in the time to sift through it?

Luckily I have access to alot of courses(lindahl,rich dad etc) and software(Realdata,housingalerts) that I can sift through.

When you have looked at 100 properties, you will be able to sift through the fluff and spot a deal worth pursuing.

I understand there are supposed to be three tears of evaluation for sifting down and separating the good commercial property deals from the rest of the scrap. 

Sift through their old posts - they were probably asking the same questions at one point in time.

I've gotten WAY more leads off the non offer letters but there's a lot of sifting and calling back and negotiating to get the same number of deals from just putting an offer in the letters.

You could spend hours/days sifting through county websites and maybe put together a decent list.

One suggestion was that the soil will have to be sifted (that sounds like a crazy amount of work), another was to have the soil turned over and another was to get new soil (this would be a prohibitive amount of soil.

Its kind of like gold mining; many months of sifting through dirt to find a nugget.

Also, by knowing how much you are approved for, will help you sift through the one's that are obviously not fitting in your criteria window.