Some tools myself and others have used: - Skip tracing- Mailers- Data aggregators like PropStream, PropertyShark, etc. 

Propstream is great, you can get a lot of data off of there as well as driving for dollars which I believe is also around $99/month. 

They would never look at 99% of the 154 units that are listed on Zillow at any given time.I used this exercise to show how opportunities fall through the cracks & most investors make investment decisions based on bad or irrelevant data.

Do you rely on specific data sources, gut instincts, or perhaps a blend of both?

You learn a lot about data and analysis, renovation costs and dealing with tenants which can mitigate some of the fear of investing.

Once you find an iBuyer, the company will determine an appropriate purchase price using market data.

First step is looking at the data of your comps.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html Of course, markets can be wrong, and data can change, but that is what is being priced in at the moment.

But with Intel's $20 billion plant, Google's three data centers, and land buys by Amazon and Meta, Columbus is worth it!

Over the past three years, I’ve been using most of the major off-market techniques.One standout method has always been pulling data and feeding it into a call center to generate off-market leads.