Hi David..Section 8 tenants are steady and can find descent families - interview - sort - sift to select the best ones...:)

Remember: the most important thing for most investors is sifting through potential deals and finding the next good one they can pull the trigger on.People always think that wholesaling is the best way to start.

If you don't have the right connections or team, you may flounder for a while searching, sifting and sorting.

I'm a complete beginner and stumbled upon biggerpockets while sifting through (I shamefully admit) paid mentors. 

If you go on E bay you can buy pretty much any name brand guru's written material or tapes that those that pay the big bucks get and then when they never use it they sell it on E bay for 50 to 100 bucks.. its worth buying as many of those as you can from all different guru's then sift through it all and take what you like and implement those strategies.Bottom line the way wholesaling is taught in most course simply is not legal anyway at lesat without a RE license.

I am looking to buy 2-4 unit investment and got a list of about 150 properties.My question is how would I go about crunching the numbers and sifting through all of it, it because I obviously didn't  get any info from the sellers as far as taxes, rent and stuff like that so how can I narrow things down and figure out what to pick as my first property?

Why are you guys sifting through Short Sales...

So you have to sift through a lot of potential sellers.

A lot of worthless (for the purpose of the alert) posts to sift through.

I'm just sifting through endless listings of perfectly fine houses that are in no way a deal.