Unfortunately I’ve been looking at a blue screen for ages.

EVERYONE is having a hard time getting subs / contractors to return a phone call / bid a job / or show up. 

He went on vacation for a few days, so he refuses to answer the phone.

It was just your standard res lot and nobody had been there for many years (quite typical I guess...they just faithfully kept paying the taxes each year...Our first meeting was by phone and their initial response was "no" or WE;RE NOT selling, but the very next day, I got the call  that they were planning to build there

@Shane Ward 3 years means very little when you are talking real estate, thats a blip on the screen.

Identify a few and reach out by phone. 

Newbie flip investor here.I would like any advice on how to research, screen, and interview GCs for rehab projects. 

Or do you have to make some phone calls to ask on specific houses? 

Some people are really capital chasers trying to talk you into one type of investment or another.I often talk to potential clients about NNN over the phone.

It's a big book full of practical advice from marketing, screening, leases, collecting rent, etc.