Many of the homes I´ve acquired took weeks of bleach, ammonia, pinesol and scrubbing to get the stink out.

Wholesaling in SoCal can be tough....i haven't found the competition factor a set-back yet..if your really out in the streets, knocking on doors, at your court houses, county buildings consistently you find there are not as many wholesalers as you may think actively wholesaling.....there are quiet a bit of people talking and wanting to get in...i use the county buildings and the court houses for my leads...there are some really great untapped resources and tons of different types of leads you can get from those two places...and of course I have not discovered anything brand new...im just realizing the sucess is in the fight and how hard you want it...when i found out about these two sources i started to pull data from them and let me tell you it was overwhelming...but it was a gold mine...before i made enough money to pay someone to do this for me....i had to spend hours and hours and hours daily scrubbing data....finding address and owners names...etc...i have a system now and it runs smooth...i find some really great deals throughout LA County and Riverside County...I have 2 cash buyers that have bought all my deals...thats another important thing find real cash buyers...when i first started out i didnt have real buyers and i found out other wholesalers were acting as cash buyers just passing my deals on and on and it became a daisy chain leading to no where...Anyway i love wholesaling and i could type all day..if you want some creative ideas to find properties PM me....but dont give up...and don't let anyone discourage you about SoCal...its tough and it will literally make you cry....lol but its great place to start wholesaling...if your willing to put in the work...

I scrub the list each time before I send out the list to remove homes that are sold or listed. 

John A. most have a number of agents that scrub the MLS, then they plug the numbers to look at yield and/or cap rate.

If you are wanting to take the time and expense to mail people, I'd spend DAYS scrubbing list of people to mail to.

What sources do you all use to scrub your lists??

Next, I had a tenant leave my unit filthy including grease all over the oven which took an hour of serious scrubbing.

Prcyd pricing is pretty competitive for most people and offers additional value like some data scrubbing and valuation Estimates.The only other service I've seen people using lately is LandVision (LightBox).

Cold outreach: direct mail, cold email, cold texting, cold callingGet a list, scrub list to get contact into (depending on how you will communicate), reach out, follow-up to the 99/100 owners that aren't interested every few monthsCold calling will have highest conversion but lowest volume.

I always thought these were generated organically.or I guess maybe some company scrubs public data and gets the names of folks that have  been buying ?