Most seasoned professionals in distressed real estate either transition from extensive careers at real estate firms or legal offices that deal with foreclosures and similar issues.

Contact your county tax assessor's office to learn how to find this information (it's usually online and easy).Talk to the neighbors.There are paid apps that may include contact information for specific properties.

I've had many many people come to our office with a set of plans they bought off the internet.

You should talk to your loan officer.

I tried the county office but nothing helpful

You have to just commit to doing the lead generation 5-6 days a week (social posts, door knocking, talk to people you know, talk to people you don't know, host open houses for agents in your office, drive for FSBO's, etc) until you have planted so many "seeds" that they result in business. 

@Jay Hinrichs They called the office, then did a transactional funding app, which is pretty brief.

One particular lender and when I say Lender, I’m talking about the individual loan officer that we have worked with in the past had a number of his Lending policies changed so we had to start using someone else when he did not have a product that fit .I realize that a number of the replies have come from lenders themselves so they’re looking for faithful customers.

A few weeks ago I received a frantic call from a police officer in the town were we have an STR.

I was fitting this into an awkward schedule.The Facebook group was welcoming and fun to lurk and read posts, getting a feel for the community.Contracts in the document library were great – but overwhelming (you’ll see this phrase a lot)This was a main value for me – hiring lawyers to write contracts without knowing potential pitfalls or where I could/could not protect myself was a major concern.These contracts are worth the price of admission and only available w/in community.These contracts cover Joint Ventures (JVs) between parties, Creative Deals and non-creative deals, WRAPs, RVs, Automobiles, Leas Options, Wholesale Assignments, Hybrid docs and more.I haven’t actually gone through all of them yet.Tens of Thousands of dollars have been spent refining these contracts and just having access to this library was worth the price.