You talk to Person #1 on the phone, pre-screen them on Facebook (haha, yes I do!) 

I would contact a few surrounding counties and see if you can pay them for a list of mobile homes from their tax roll.  

In my experience, I've come to the realization that I need to get pre-approved, rather than pre-qualified, in order to get someone (real estate agent) to show me around an area and start helping me find a property I'd like to invest in. 

They're sent to my email.Virtual Assistant Updates website, does a little bit of calling, and helps out here and there.Realtor has me on zip code searches within my criteria.I use slybroadcast.com to blast voicemails out to prospects.Mail is pretty much completely manual, other than the fact I learned how to use mail merge.Blog posts are outsourced and shared on social media outlets.Bandit signs are manually put outHiring photographer to take pics and vids of properties for saleCreated an Offer calculator for my VA to determine what cash, sub-to, or owner finance offers to make.Analysis calculator is pre-set, and takes 3 minutes to analyze a property.Budget: not counting my chickens before they hatch, but once this current deal goes to closing, I'll have roughly $10K to put towards marketing and automation for the next 6 months.What I'd LIKE to Do...Automatic mail outs from lists I've chosenAnswering service to screen leads (actual humans)..

I could see having both to contribute to, hence raising my contribution maxes (if it even works that way).If you have a Roth IRA, those funds can't be rolled over into a Solo 401K.....which is why I have both a Solo 401K and a Roth SDIRA.    

Pre covid we were meeting at Crazyhorse, but weve been meeting virtually for a few months.

I know most of you would tell me I should be pre qualifying leads before actually wasting my time to go to the property, but I wanted the experience of walking through houses, learning to build rapport and improve my sales skills.

You would typically pre-sign an assignment of mortgage or DOT and an allonge (documents that transfer ownership of a mortgage and note, respectively).

Congratulation on your decision to "step out", after being in conventional real estate for so long, it is a big decision to want to be more productive, earn more, and build a portfolio of profitable properties as a real estate investor.It is difficult however for agents/brokers to change hats, to forget the old ways of doing the conventional real estate business and to get educated on the creative ways to control and roll real estate.I commend your decision to do so.One Broker to another, if you need some suggestions, just give me a call.Good luck.

Went to get pre aproved and sadly, a collection on my credit for 6000, won't let me get approved: ( ,from bad roommates 5 years ago.