If you're looking to add value you can always do the BRRR method so you can ideally use the same money over and over again 

Emphasis in operations include: repetitive, methodical process; unsolicited direct mail campaigning; forced value generation; off-MLS marketing; market arbitrage; options, and creative Seller financing.

my long-term strategy on any property I am looking for right now is the house hacking method, living in it with roommates, after a year or two moving out hoping buying a 3rd place and continuing to rent the property.

Know what criteria you’re looking for on the sites and stick to it.DocumentFair methods for selecting tenants are nondiscriminatory, well documented and applied uniformly to protect yourself from fair housing complaints.

Also what was the purchase method?

I know you can get a low money down 3.5% with the FHA loan, but I'm not sure of any other traditional finance method that can get you into a property for less than that. 

I can help you land properties at much lower rates than you could on your own based on a couple of methods and tools that I use to mine for deals.

What method would you suggest instead? 

Anyway I get the data into a spreadsheet which I can now sort by any method necessary.

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.