I've spend hundreds of hours scouring all of the major sites for items.

I have agents on my team looking as well as myself scouring MLS daily.

Homework you can do from home: scour the MLS.  

if you have enough time scour the used websites like let-go and Craigslist and there are many others like Facebook Marketplace is fantastic in my area New York City people are constantly moving in and out of New York City Apartments these are high-net-worth people and the deals are truly unbelievable you just have to be available quickly sometimes to get the merchandise however the savings could be thousands of dollars per unit so don't discount those types of places my first rental property I bought everything new five years later I bought everything used and I don't regret it.

I'll do some scouring on the nets in the meantime.

I've been scouring the area for the last few months focusing on multi-family homes and just found what I belive to be a great opportunity. 

See if you can work with them.Get good at comping properties.Get good at scouring your mls for properties.Get together a vendor list of preferred vendors for your clients.

Another option is to scour your local market looking for a deal.

I told her what I was looking for and we started scouring.

After scouring BP, it seems like the Broker route is the way to go?