It might just take some trial and error on the site to figure it out.

Essentially you are saying that you want to put all your eggs into one basket, no room for error, no emergency fund for yourself or your properties, only to have cashflow of $22.6K that is likely barely enough to live on let alone reinvest, and just hope you always have renters, nothing breaks, or the economy doesn't experience a downturn.  

Hello BiggerPockets! I'm an engineer by day, but I'd like to start building wealth & cashflow with buy and hold properties in the Columbus area. I've spent the past few months trying to understand the numbers, dev...

When first contacted I do review social media to help see if I can find anything to compare the data on the pre-screen application for errors which I have found. 

They are prone to human error.

Hind site being 20/20 you made most of the common errors that lead to high losses.

"Less desirable" properties are many times entered incorrectly by agents, and human error can work in your favor =)

@Patrick Wheeler   Let me take a crack at this one.First, the property info in the MLS often contains errors.

Heres what i did, and i could have took the long way and i havent had any deals yet but ill break down my trial and error and the method i feel will work best for me.first, i searched zillow for homes that are selling for low cost, found the owners and mailed yellow letters of course-the problem with this is, a lot of these homes still have loans on them and probably bank owned already, the owner still lives there, theres already a realtor on the job, just way too many obstacles, i dont expect to get any calls from those letters but you have to start somewhere.next, i started searching on auction sites for homes that did not go up for auction yet or the auction expired-again, the problem with this is the homes are 9/10 bank owned. while some of them are foreclosures theres still extra loops to jump through.I considered buying lists of vacant homes and stuff but i am the most frugal person you will ever meet lol, its not that i cant afford to buy a list, its just that i know theres a different way and plus whoever made those list had to have someone else generating that list for them.

This assumes you contract deals with legit spreads of course.notherwise, you will only be able to dump them off yo rookies and ignorant buyers.Your motivated seller leads are the base of your business, without these, you have no acquisitions.