You will soon get the knack of sifting the wheat from the chaff.And don't forget to hover over "Community", "Education", and "Tools" for inspiration too.

My top three:RICH Club (For Education)Lifestyles (Networking)Quest IRA (for the money)Like all meet-ups, you'll have to sift through the sideliners and get to the workers but overall if you truly network you can get everything you need from these groups. 

Just takes many of us sifting through the bad to get to the good ones.

The agent needs to understand this and be willing to put in that up front work of sifting through a lot of garbage in order to find the right one.

Closed March 4th on the duplex, renovated the lower unit, advertised it and sifted through multiple tenants and I believe to have found a winner.  

You just can't sift or police jerks, it comes with bearing your questions for a bunch of people to reply to.

I’m an out of state investor and after some market research and sifting through BP threads have decided to get into the Kansas City market.

You get so much useful information in the list they provide.The list may have 4000 properties like my county would have.One useful thong you can sift through at the county office is if the certified letters where signed for or if they came back in received.This may indicate an owner that the county can't locate to inform them they may be losing their property.

My concern with this is, I don't want them to be in a pre-2008 scenario to where the value of their property drops 25-40% a yer or two after they buy and then they get stuck.However, with the same token, my other concern is that as we sift through properties, prices keep going up.

Let's look at finding deals . . . . . . . for single and  multifamily1)  Track listings on MLS (being your own agent is helpful so you can act fast, but not for everyone)2) For multi family, I would also watch LoopNet or Costar3) get on a lot of wholesalers list and sift through the junk to find the gem 4) Attend local REIA meetings and get to know the players and let them get to know you, they might have a pocket listing.5) Direct mail potential sellers in areas you want to buy -  - code violation lists (I send about 1000 pieces of mail a month)- probate (or even obit records for all deceased owners of property) - look for deceased owners of duplexes and send letters- direct mail probate attorneys who might have families dealing with rental properties- direct mail nursing homes - caseworkers who help families transition- farm specific areas where you want to buy and direct mail the absentee owners.- know of a group of properties you would really like, keep telling the owners of your desire to buy and when they sell, they will call you first (most good duplexes sell this way to friends or contacts that connected with the owner) they don't often get listed for sale, they sell to family or friends.