If trying to get the asset, that is the best way to "skip the line".

I read somewhere that one method to find deals is to skip trace and call properties under contract by other wholesalers, that did not close 30 days later.

Then after I get the owners address and name I use a skip tracing service that allows me to get the owners personal info (address, phone, email, etc.) , I hired personal assistants on upwork to write letters and cold call the owners for me, its hard to find the time for those things because I have a family and full time job.

You're not cash flowing that anywhere, unless you're skipping steps. 

Regards,Darsh Hi Darsh.It's hard for an OOS landlord to find much support by local folks in Ytown because we have a ton of OOS landlords who are, for lack of a nicer description, slumlords (or they insist on trying to make the houses into rehab houses, which means we have to go down to city hall, fight them and get them shut down).They look at Ytown as cheap, disposable properties, they don't bring them up to code, they rent to the first crackhead with 500.00 in their pocket, 3 mos later the crackhead has skipped out without paying rent, damaged the property, and the landlord just rents it out to a similarly situated tenant, rinse and repeat.This makes the neighborhoods worse and keeps our property values down further than they should be. 

Is cold calling and skip tracing a viable strategy for securing wholesale deal flow when compared to other marketing tactics (i.e. bandit signs, MLS, etc.)? 

Being completely new to this world, I don't want to make any costly mistakes or skip and needed steps.

I will probably skip MI's current Memphis deals and keep looking though. 

What are the best skip-trace data aggregators for Real Estate coming into 2023?

every market in the mid west deals can be had... and you can get the general feel of a market right on the internet.. also skip the brokers to start and go straight to PM in the markets you want to work in.. they are your lifeline... thats what I always do.. they will then either do some brokerage work. ( this is how I set up my cleveland vendor the PM we picked and liked in Cleveland also has a sales side so he is getting the inventory for us as well, some of it from his clients that are suffering burned out landlord syndrome, some of it his listings and the rest straight off of MLS.. to date I don't think we have dealt with a wholesaler in that market.. and you being a broker probably know the risk of using a wholesaler there are some good ones for sure but there are many that are beginners and simply will waste an inordinate amount of your time.. so caution there.Once you interview 3 PM's in your market you want to work.. and they are the one's on the firing line they will tell you straight up what rents will be etc etc .. what areas are super tough to work or even better areas they won't work because the tenant base is so tough or its a war zone.