Where do you normally start researching the economic clout players in a given area then since you do not use a database?

I was a football, basketball, soccer, hockey player but never had the grades to be able to play for my schools so i was part of the school drama and later speech and debate team wich let me expirince life and environments completely different from mine while also providing a family feeling i was in search for. 

My wife works for a significant player in the REI market in rural Nova Scotia.

Growing up as a baseball player.

Sure, you could go with the players with the highest stats possible - but they won't be affordable.

I’d expect 20 plus calls to get 1 deal.So likely your annual budget is a percentage of what the big players spend on this stuff per month.I have bought multiple properties for about double what you’ll spend on direct mail.  

In NE Florida, jax, all auctions have gone online, 5% down, 95% rest is due noon the next business day, via cashiers check, bag of cash maybe..the big boy players store their 100% full cash with the court account already....ive also heard local escrow account will wire that morning too, which makes sense, .......Im interested in auctions, but until i am 100% all my own cash, i feel it is almost impossible to get a hard money lender to move 95% of the cash by noon the next day...no way.... to me, you can pretty much rule out using hard money all together to fund online auctions...they don't seem to go together.. it is 100% liquid own cash or private money ready to wire from escrow..

ONLY do business when your starting out with reputable HML and one who is local who you can walk and in and talk to them in person.there are bigger players that are in multiple states. but NO one is in all 50.. these include.LendinghomeLendingoneLima oneVisio GensisAnchor Aloha Conventus and on and on and on.. there are plenty of legit lenders out there. 

Francescon now lives in Illinois.Early in the crisis, cash-rich investors rushed in, snapping up troubled homes on the cheap.Big, Wall Street-backed firms and small players picked up homes by the thousands at bank foreclosures for well under $100,000.

When I look at the REI landscape, I always wish that more investors, players, and vendors would try to create win, win, win situations.