Thank you for the resources provided. 

They can help target by area, home value and other criteria to get a list of owners with property that you would want to buy.

My pilot is about 1/10 acre, and my target yield is 100 lb. in 4 years.

Which lists would you target and what marketing would you use?

I have recently found some properties in my target locations meeting the 1% rule.

Look for what is selling for or near your target price and try to copy that.

We are looking for the elusive flip house in my area, the classic 3/2 block house with high enough comps surrounding to support the 25-30% target profit. 

I came across the option on Zillow for Pre-foreclosures and thought it was an interesting option to create Does anyone here target pre-foreclosures in their market?

There are  great resources like BP here and many others that have good quality information either for free or very inexpensively.Mentoring is different.

Well, direct mail and bandit signs both cost MONEY; whereas cold calling is free of expense other than TIME... and if you are targeting the right persons to call, it should not be too long before you stumble across a deal that then gives you some money to add other methods.