His work products and many others can be found with simple google searches for free online.

I can't post the link here, you can dm me or search online. 

I found an auction person, and I see listings online.

You can also use online resources such as City Data to search demographics in the area. 

You can also find reliable, more than worthy, creative, legal and ethical basic as well as advanced real estate courses on line!

Hi all,I am new to the online community but have been listening to bigger pockets podcasts for years.

Networking, local meetups, door knocking, mailers, wholesalers, online forums specific to your area of interest.  

It is not very difficult or complicated to evaluate commercial real estate, there are plenty of good books available that can teach you how, textbooks, online courses, community college classes, even excellent youtube videos etc, and it is actually quite enjoyable in the process to learn.

He was a former professor and has online courses that are good to have.

Every PM operates differently, and at the end of the day, there is tons of information you can navigate on your own in the beginning stages online, but surely there will be PM's that would be more than happy to assist you on journey.