You don't have to spend $500 on zillow or trulia leads, but liking up with a wholesaler who can skip trace and pass leads that want to send retail your way is invaluable.

1.Knock the door.2.Skip trace the owner.Just a thought....if you can in fact buy at the tax sale you may get it cheaper and with non-governmental liens wiped out....but perhaps with a right of redemption.Before the sale you might pay more, but then maybe you are the only bidder and no redemption period.

Maybe skip trace the address.   

Then from there you can send them a letter and skip trace them.

And if the profit is as small as you said, if correct, I would skip the 1031, and pay the taxes.

I have a list of 300 people, should I spend my money skip tracing and doing ringless voicemail which would come out to around $450 OR should I use my money and do Facebook ads instead?

What if your furnaces goes out and then while you are busy replacing it the tenant decides to skip and you sit on a vacancy for a month?

If you dont have time to listen to the whole thing skip about the first 30-35 mins...I think the calculator/ property example starts around that time. 

If you want to evict make sure your state law allows you to skip the cure or quit stage and go directly to eviction.This may also be a good time to look into you inspection policies.

You can also check on meetup.com to see if there's anything there as well.Save your money and skip the course.