I have a reading list on my website.

Their website also has some good information about lease options in general if you want to learn more.Another thing you can do is just ask if a seller is willing to do a lease-option, especially if you see a house on the market that you like that has been sitting for a long time.

Is there an alternative, less expensive way to go about this--maybe a website with RE contract templates and the like?

So far I have gotten 40 clicks to my website through AdWords but have not gotten any information from sellers.

I'd benefited so much from this website and love to meet new people.

I just purchased my first duplex, and am following the advice of @John Casmon in renovating one of the units, moving in, then finishing it off before I put it back on the market at significantly higher rents in the next 6 months. 

The stuff you find should match the things you/they already know about the house - who owns it, which bank holds the note (if any), the name of the people they bought it from (if not bought brand new), etc.Sometimes it takes a little digging through the county website to find the right property, and depending on the software the web site uses, it's not always easy to bookmark the page in your Web browser when you find the information you're looking for. 

Just finished up my third property and just now hired some help but I still do most myself.

However, when I do a property search on the tax assessors website, many times the Fair Market Value listed by the county is much lower than the properties list price?  

@Andrew RobitailleWe just finished an out of town rehab, it is challenging.