After 6months of jumping through hoops of securing financing as a self-employed person, searching for the right property, getting the offer accepted, negotiating roof repairs with the seller to meet the FHA guidelines, I finally got it closed.  

I'm on month 3 of a sale, because the title company waited a month and a half to pull a municiple search, that takes the city another month to actually do!

Record a really nice voicemail on Google Voice, have all seller calls go straight to voicemail, then call the sellers back when you get off work.

Google Debtors Anonymous.

You can also start making connections by offering yourself to put up bandit signs for wholesalers, searching the MLS for investors, analyzing deals, etc.

@Alesia AlbertYou might want to run a search on BP.

Just figured I would share my thoughts from the other post here as well, had a bad run-in with John himself and I am not happy about how he treated me as a customer.......I had to search high and low to talk to someone after I purchased the product.

@Lane Cooper For my duplex I used an FHA loan which was perfect because it required very little money down and allowed me to keep cash liquid as I search for another deal.

You can google their web address. 

I am beginning to narrow down my search and the criteria that I am considering is as follows: Population size/GrowthWhere are people coming from?