I recommend doing your research and looking at properties online. 

Here is my system that I have shared on the forums previously:It all starts with online ads, within which are several pre-screening questions I request be answered in their response to my ad.

I think they just started offering it again.Dyches Boddiford has a good course https://assets101.com/events/hard-money-lending-online/I and several others have taken it.

The counties themselves take 2-4 weeks to record a document online.

Evan took an online class and learned how to replaster walls and yes I do mean old school plaster.

Tell the lender you want a construction loan online of credit.  

The online gurus are the worst.

One tip is to start looking into meetups to connect with investors / others in the REI game (in person/online).

Oregon saw it that way as well.. many folks got cease and desist using guru on line training techniques this just formalizes the activity and levels the playing field and gives both buyers and sellers a mechanism to get out of deals and or have a regulator step in..

Often pretty quickly....see something online at 1pm and I'm meeting you there at 2pm to see if we can lock it up before someone else did.