You can either pay upfront with money for someone who really knows (who is actually educated themselves) to show you or teach you, or you can pay with time trying to sift through all the available information trying to determine which information is correct and more accurate, or you can pay on the backend as you pay to fix your mistakes.There are so many people here on BiggerPockets that are anti paying for education.

There are a lot of people here locally in the space, some are good and some are not, your job is to sift through all your options and try to find the good ones!

If looking on the MLS, your agent should be able to export current past listings and rents from the whole area to be able to sift through the data easier.

Lots of information to sift through.

If you have access to your father's paperwork, I'd sift through that to see what you can find out.

Either their deals make financial sense or they don't, but at least you don't have to spend your time and money to attract those deals.You just have to sift through the junk to get to the gems.

If you know your market and you know your numbers, you can sift through deals faster to see if it's even worth doing anymore due diligence without even talking to the listing broker or your agent.

Than I called my metal guys to let them sift through and pick as much metal as possible.

It can be challenging to sift through it, but in the end you'll be better prepared to move forward than if you had begun by speaking to professionals. 

I spend a lot of time sifting through land records, wondering whether there's a company that already does this that I can pay for the data.Thanks in advance,