I found out what I needed to know after doing a title search.

Might take some searching, digging, time and patience, but you've got this!

To find a good deal, you will most likely have to do some leg work to beat out other investors also searching in your area. 

@Dara Kharabi I hear baltimore is being built up and is ideal for flips, I have yet to have my wife do some searching on the MLS but she's talked to other investors and has been given the heads up about the market out there.

You haven't searched.

Or you can put it in a balanced portfolio of investments that you select, with or without a paid financial adviser.

After 6months of jumping through hoops of securing financing as a self-employed person, searching for the right property, getting the offer accepted, negotiating roof repairs with the seller to meet the FHA guidelines, I finally got it closed.  

I'm on month 3 of a sale, because the title company waited a month and a half to pull a municiple search, that takes the city another month to actually do!

You can also start making connections by offering yourself to put up bandit signs for wholesalers, searching the MLS for investors, analyzing deals, etc.

We have a forum specifically for agents (select the Forums tab when that opens select the brows forums tab)Keep in mind the investor world and the agent world are very different.