Sift through episodes of Bigger Pockets PC, The Best Ever PC, and Jake and Gino's Wheel Barrel Profits PC for small apartment-specific episodes.

Become handy at estimating monthly expenses including property management, maintenance, taxes/insurance, and CapEx reserves and you will quickly be able to sift through a large number of potential deals to find the few worth putting in an offer on.In order to connect to locals, I would recommend touching base with @Kevin Carbon as he hosts a monthly, informal BP Meet-Up in Lakewood.

We are looking to connect with other investors in our area, maybe share some secrets of being an awesome landlord and how to sift through the applications to find the best qualified tenant.

I know there's a lot of bad information out there, so please help me sift through it all.

The Disney area has many STR communities that are purpose built for that reason and it is proven, not nearly as much data to collect or city/county rules to sift through.

I just sift through and pick a topic I find interesting.

In fact all the info from coaching is here but it takes some experience to sift through it so you loose time (aka money) while learning on your own.

I thought that you had received the list from your realtor.So depending on how many leads you have in total, you may want use your own sweat equity and take your list and input it (one by one) into your property appraisers/assessor's search tool to see if the mailing address matches the subject property.You could also, ask the courthouse, or your tax collector to give you the same list with the additional info, or at least give it to you into a spreadsheet format that you can manipulate to get the info to sift to the top.As for finding phone numbers:I posted this a Lil while ago but don't know how to send the actual post, so I'm copying and pasting it here.Let me first start by saying that to find the owner of the property, first you must go to your local property appraiser's site, then look up the address to find out who owns the place.

With MHP's like any commercial property you will more commonly find that they go to PO Boxes, or to non descriptive mailing addresses.Depending how heavily you're targeting a specific market you can sift through this a bit.  

We've been doing this for over 4 years, so we feel like we've kinda sifted through the bad ones (there were plenty of them) and we've found some good people, but you never know what happens going forward.Anyway, most of our tenants are pretty handy and we're fortunate enough to not receive minor calls, but we still have a group of people that handle whatever pops up; both tenants and non-tenants.