-Looked for recent cash sales and figured out what investors were buying in the area by searching the property on my county's tax assessor website-Practiced comping propertiesI plan to use the rest of January to set up my business structure and have my first direct mail campaign out in the first week of February. 

One of my buildings has a common foyer area and I have been thinking about installing a small bulletin board there to post with reminders, tips, etc.

Does anyone have a suggestion of where to purchase a real estate agent mailing list?

Check the Daily Record or other business publications where foreclosures and tax sales are publicized.Attend Rent and Housing court every dayRun ads in newspapers or Goggle Ad WordsTalk to foreclosures attorneysGet on the mailing list of all auctioneers in the areaWork a farm area, walk and talkMake offers everyday on expired listingsAttend seller ordered auctionsVisit the manager of every bank in your areaGet the current list of Tax Sale offerings, visit as many owners as possibleOffer agents a big bonuses for bring you listed and unlisted propertiesTalk to brokers and mangers of real estate officesJust my thoughts.

The prices on the market are very high due to limited supply on the MLS and increased demand.My suggestions is to target a few neighborhoods and mail out letters to multifamily property owners.  

As far as finding deals, I have had luck with mail marketing and also with driving for dollars. 

Account Closed  Thanks alot and I will give the details after closing I'm still nervous that something may stall... but I always remind myself "95% of the things we worry about never happen anyway.." so hopefully my worrying about something stalling the deal won't happen and I can close this deal and move on to the next immediately thereafter.

A family memeber recently did this and just had his mail coming to his address he lived in a completely different location and refinanced after about 6 months. 

I've read a few forum threads about finding absentee owner names and addresses, but I want to get a little more specific.I found a house I want to market for here in Orange County, CA. I went to the OC Tax Assessor's ...

Approximately, a year ago I received an e-mail asking me to fund the rehab of a small house.