Identify a few neighborhoods, subscribe to local newspapers and social media sites.

Just a lil about myself, I am a recent graduate (October 2017), live in New York City but move from Massachusetts where I go to school to SoCal California to live with a friend that currently goes to school in Los Angeles.Anyways my issue is after I move to California I started to work in December as a data center technician contractor in Irvine, the job lasted for 3 months since it was a 3 month contract, I’ve been researching about real estate since I started the job then decided that I wanted to invest in it.I devoted all my time and effort since March into real estate to learn and network, went to one meetup in Irvine, met the guy that hosted the meetup (Great Guy!)

You might be better off saving up and even looking into some of the P2P lending and real estate crowdfunding sites.

I’m hoping to hear how others analyze markets, what tools you use, and sites you gather data from.

It's a very investor friendly brokerage, the broker started and hosts the monthly REIA meeting!

Its so nice to have a site like this.

I had a pretty awesome, albeit 24/7 career before I got my license (thinking that "all these people do it, I've done way more difficult things & have a master's degree-I can certainly succeed:) Succeed I have, and it took really doing what they teach us, building systems, really digging in why am I doing all this (staying up late, spend holiday weekends hosting open houses, as mentioned above, etc.).

Finally, it provides sample letters you can customize and use.NOLO web site is a great resource for state law.

Current have a web site but the company apparently has gone out of business. 

You can check on the bid baltimore site which liens have redeemed.