Your time is best spent producing the revenue that allows you to invest in the first place.That includes using local agents you meet and feel are a good fit for you, property managers, possibly buying completed properties like the one you posted here, and outsourcing as much of the process as you can as you get started. 

Are you local here in OKC?

I was recently let go so I decided to start my own business.

@Julia Newman, for sourcing a property owner's information, research and consider implementing PropStream in your business.

Here is a source.https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...

Nevertheless I am local now and I have that real estate desire (which never went away).

I'm also hopeful to get some local cooperation now that he's claiming partnerships with local government. 

Unfortunately, 99% of BiggerPockets posters who are not local to Philadelphia and choose to invest in Philadelphia invest in the lowest tier neighborhoods, just as they do in most other distant markets where they invest because they are lured in by the inexpensive cost of housing. 

Life and business are complicated.

A few others have me mentioned other rust belt cities reviving because of cheaper housing prices, rising rents, and new business moving in.