@Leonard L.This is one of the free webpages I use to retrieve free probate filings in San Francisco and Sacramento counties:https://adtech.dailyjournal.com/legalads/To begin go to SEARCH ~ for Category select PROBATE (for County and Notice Type leave as it is)  ~ Newspaper select DAILY COMMERCE ~ on the far right hit the blue Search>> button. 

My two favorite ways to find tenants is my placing a sign at the window and advertising in the local newspaper.

Look at the Newspaper Headlines in the 80's, "Worst Time To Buy", "Worst Market Ever"...

Tougher and tougher to get deals , hoping winter slows the market done a little bit and every house doesn't have 10 offers lolHowever when it comes to Redford I am only interested in west of telegraph , and don't buy in the grand river telegraph area.

My wife and I placed ads in newspapers, there was no Internet, well there was, just not for us ordinary folks in the early 80's.

If an address can’t be found , notice by newspaper publication is also acceptable.

Georgia, for example, requires a foreclosure notice to be posted in the official county newspaper for four consecutive weeks leading up to the sale, on the first Tuesday of every month.

There is a newspaper that comes out every Wednesday, there is a section that lists all the estate auctions going on that weekend. 

Technology is not always good for us. what took me a year and a lot of money at least for the time period.. can now be duplicated at your home computer  LOL.. yup.And when my Dad started in the 60s  direct mail was alive and well its how all the land companies got leads that and of course advertising in the newspaper ( which I know most of our new BP members probably dont remember or even know what a classified add in a paper looks like). 

Below is a link to a newspaper article regarding my case.