You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

(d) If you strike out on landing any on-market deals, you can search for off-market deals.

I'll admit yes I did, but only in a couple of situations, it is just so tough the way our system is set up....so you can call me a hypocrite if you like.5) And here is an 'outside the box' idea I've had for a while now - everyone says - "we have to let them all in, no one else will do those jobs".

And for example if they see a property was taken back by the bank and is not shown on the track record as a huge loss, then that is another type of red flag.Internet searches can also be done on the sponsor looking for lawsuits, etc.

Typically, as I'm searching for further acquisitions, I don't even consider deals that won't return at least a fast 300%, with no further CapEx, just by clipping-and-flipping.

My only concern is searching for the rent to value "1% rule". 

I suggest you enter private money goldmine in search botton at top right of the screen and read the previous posts....here is one that gives good perspective as well as a link to legitimate private lenders.http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/topics/1488...

I was doing some general forum searches and saw this. 

However, I havent yet found a realtor who has been able to bring me a deal that I havent already seen on the market through searches on Realtor.com or Loopnet.

It's gotta grab people, draw them in, stop them in there searching tracks.