You need CoStar and Crexi to have any chance, but more than that, you need to know who the industrial players are in your area.

My pet county starts tomorrow morning and time to redeem ends in about 30 minutes  there are 400 items last I checked.. its a big one.. the one I really wanted got redeemed yesterday thoughIn the old days we would be a player for probably 50 to 75 of these going.. now I just cherry pick if I can 

Lots of great meetups here as well if you'd like to come out in person and meet many of the top players in person.

Great way to scale it up. where do you go to get a lists Propstream, LeadSherpa, The Share Group, even the big residential RE players like REDX and Vulcan7 have absentee owners.

No real player will do any meaningful business with the people they can't trust. 

What I’d really love to find is a comprehensive resource that lists out rules and regulations in different cities worldwide, but perhaps that would be the size of an encyclopedia.

Moreover, while there is currently a lot of hype around seller financing and low and no money-down investment strategies, the reality is you need capital to be a player in the space.

Once we start talking about bigger pieces of land that that woulud appear to developers (i.e. homebuilders or developers who do self storage, medical office, industrial, retail/commercial) then I usually can market to them without necessarily having to put on the market, because I know who the players are in SoCal, and that helps especially when seller doesn't want to do an exclusive listing, but will let you bring offers off market.But in general, for random pieces of land that aren't necessarily for the big developers/builders, you certainly need to put it on the market. 

. ;-)Attorney General’s legal action against Quality Loan Service results in payment to homeowners, delays foreclosures and stops deceptive practiceshttps://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s... thanks for clarifying...if they were the players you had to contend with, i can see why the need for suit.

Assuming you have the drive, capability and desire to be more of active investor/player this is what I would do if I had $10,000 to start out.I would first get really really good at underwriting deals …and then find a property that has a 25% amount of equity upside in the deal day one and also a combination of healthy cash flow that can support the property DAY 1!!!.