The markets you are looking at are pretty hot, so you should consider finding off market deals with a mail campaign. 

Mail campaigns are a good way to contact homeowners who share motivational characteristics that they could be ready to sell.

I know people spending tens of thousands of dollars monthly on marketing campaigns. 

I am in the process of finding my first mailing list,  for a direct mailing campaign, the site I've read about  (findmotivatedsellers.cm, listsource.com,etc) all have terrible reviews. 

We have had many, many good stories with Yellow Letters and have placed many houses under contract directly from our mailing campaigns.

There is nothing available in my target area so I'm looking to do a direct mail campaign using list source to send out some mailers.

Ramped up my DM Campaign after many failures w/ minimal replies.

As I'm running my direct mail campaign, I'm realizing that some properties are not located on my local tax assessor's website.  

It will take months of networking, meeting people at your local REIA, sending out a direct mail campaign, etc.I dont know how you can do it from SE Asia.

The bottom line is that I'll stay home and skip Cochran and Watson's Las Vegas weekend (Vegas has never been my cup of tea in any case) and I'll spend my money on my own marketing campaign.