If you don't have the time or inclination to start marketing to motivated sellers and sifting through the results and negotiating, you may still be able to get a great deal on an REO or a wholesale deal - buy from someone who has done that work to get a property under contract at a great price, then just pay them for that piece of the work.

While I can manipulate the data using the basic filters, there is still a considerable amount of sifting through dated postings that are no longer current or available.Has anyone else experienced this, or found a better way?

As a passive investor in TK asset category, all the "sifting through the minutia" work is done for you.  

A lot of folks will steer you away from education other than sifting through these forums and blog posts.

All I can say to someone else that is in my shoes looking to take the plunge sift through this site.

The idea here is that the website will take their info and my partner and I will be able to sift through the properties in search of potential fix & flips. 

Without some cycle of tenants, capital improvements, and maintenance the blogger is speaking of Theory and I feel should not be looked to as a "credible expert", but could still have valid points, ideas, or opinions.Like a lot of things, blog posts need to be sifted through to find the gems that will assist each of us to move forward.

Sifting through the mountains of information offered by the likes of BP, trying to make heads or tails of the incongruous data on sites like foreclosures.com, putting together my property screener, etc.  

You'll quickly find that 99.9% of wholesaler deals are absolute trash.I sift through these things daily to find the diamonds in the rough.

NO more sifting through time wasters.