If it's an individual, white pages.

I'm assuming I have to purchase a property as an individual and not a corporation in order to take advantage of FHA-backed financing.

I greatly admire those individuals for having the courage to give up their mortgage careers and start from scratch as realtors when the mortgage industry got stupid.It is now illegal to do give out bonuses and whatnot for putting people in crummy loans. 

You'd have to file a job application for the scope of work, pull a permit, get it inspected by the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and signed off.

He was also a Real Estate Investment Banker, and had authored over 4,000 pages about investment real estate, and was credentialed as a college instructor in Real Estate.

This individual helps hold me accountable to the action items I've listed to perform the goals I've outlined for myself (I work quickly and take massive action, so I've outlined goals taking me only into the end of the first quarter of this year).I'm constantly on YouTube looking at different videos on a myriad of topics concerning flipping, financing and real estate in general (usually this is a last resort /exhaustion type of thing. 

You'll find a ton of great resources on the site and lots of helpful, like minded individuals.

If you're buying a duplex for long-term hold, you'll get better terms if you buy as an individual rather than as the LLC.  

Riding on his coattail, I was able to attend exclusive meetings and lunches for wealthy individuals, who have liquid assets >$5MM.

The key seems to be to find a niche that we are comfortable with and that works for us as individual investors.