@Dana Sarcona if you’re still looking areas like Secaucus (besides the North End flood zone areas) Rutherford, Lyndhurst and Carlstadt all have good schools, safe neighborhoods with easily accessible public trans to NYC.

Can anyone recommend a good website or app to search Public Records?

Don’t say how much money you or anyone else has on a public forumStep 2.

Then you can mail or cold call or both.Other cheap or free methods are driving for dollars, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites and bandit signs if allowed.If you have the funds you can use billboards, newspaper ads, other offline publications., TV commercials, radio ads, motivated seller website, SEO, pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is consistency.

What would be the best way to start investing in real estate with this public record on my background? 

What I don't like are these sites that charge and then you find out you are paying for public knowledge.

That information is a public now.

That being said, I would check public records and see what they do list as the legal number of beds and appraiser usually will go with that. 

Our company has recently started a youtube channel to help educate the public on investment strategies, property management concepts, and overall real estate and market tips/info.

The amount of useful information someone with even half a brain can learn here for free to supplement books from Amazon or even the public library is astonishing.