Trying to take short cuts can lead to very bad results that can haunt you for the rest of your life so don't give in to the temptation to skip your education.To answer your questions...... rather than giving you my opinion about what to do next, I would strongly encourage you to spend more time reading books and learning the basic steps. 

ListSource is likely the easiest and most reliable source (unless you go through a mail house like mine or www.yellowletters.com to skip the learning curve).There are many threads about this on the forums.

Hey @Shelly Scruggs- yes :) So, to do that, just skip the part that asks for the "Down Payment Percentage" and instead, next to that, enter in the total loan amount you plan on using. 

You might just go into skip trace mode now if you question is the latter.

You likely already have a pretty good idea of what the issues might be since you live there, but still don't skip the inspection!  

If they have cash, we skip that step and get right into the mechanics of the deal.

The tenant can skip getting his account and ride on the winter program and not pay the bill till they get caught and the pipe freeze and you have no idea if they are paying their bills as the Utility companies don't even share info on the status of the account since it is not yours as a land lord. 

The term is called "Skip Tracing" Google that or "people search" and a ton of sites will come up.

Let's say I call them up and they turn out to be a legit FSBO who isn't messing around and would like to get their house under contract (whether what I have to offer interests them, let's just skip for the sake of this example).

This type of education usually skipped by new types trying to get into investing, actually a big mistake as every strategy or method used by real estate operators or investors is anchored in the fundamentals.