Pick one like www.foreclosure.com and take advantage of their 7 day trial.

The general location is good but access, speed of traffic, and site work make it problematic without a dental office, veterinary clinic or similar specific user.

Building a specific list will require you to do a good bit of research and then trial and error, as what works in one part of town won't necessarily work in the other. 

If the deal is fat enough and packaged properly, you won't have any problems finding money.Also, like Levi says, you need a narrow, but deep approach to marketing (not a bunch of superficial trials), then, continue to optimize the same approach. 

I'm finally getting around to checking out Biggerpockets, I've been investing in rentals since the housing bubble popped, doing it full-time, learned what works, and what don't by trial and error.

Thank you so much for sharing your trials and tribulations and shedding light on to the NYC house buying process.

I agree 3 month's is a long enough trial period.  

Upon a trial before a circuit court commissioner, or before any other court in this state, when it may become necessary to prove the giving of such notice of forfeiture, the same may be shown by the introduction of due proof of such publication and further proof to the satisfaction of said court, that the circumstances justifying such publication existed at the time thereof.CHAPTER 600 REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 CHAPTER 31.

The timeline is probably about in line with this case, if the August 2013 publish date was a few months after the trial.  

YEARS of trial and error have gotten them to the point where they are renovating many houses now.