Our office is our smart phone and tablet.I executed a joint venture with Elite Real Estate Systems who provides agent websites and BoomTown (an unbelievably robust CRM/back end) along with leadgen.  

Once you get the names, look at the tax assessor's website to find the owner's address.

There's been many a post written on BP on hiring contractors and doing your due diligence, the least of which starts with going to the Contractors Board website for your state and seeing if they are indeed licensed, and bonded. 

But, as with everything don't lay all your eggs in 1 basket. try some other forms of advertisement, like Facebook, twitter, Instagram, craigslist, for example I don't have a lot of FB followers on my business page but, it get's me a lot of clicks to my website with a $5.00 boost campaign where I can collect data from buyers and sellers.

I personally like Listsource because they have some of the best, most reliable data out there.There are a number of direct mail options out there if you want to outsource.  

They will not divulge details of the offences to you.If you go to the RCMP website, you can lookup the process for requesting a background check and a description of what will be disclosed.Typically, if we feel a criminal check is warranted on an applicant, we probably already have a reason to decline their application.  

I wrote down the address, went to the county clerk's website and found documents on file with the owner's address.

(this website gives you up to date listings that are on the Ventura MLS). 

Does it normally cost a fee to use the county assessors website?

From this data, you can utilize a website bestplaces.net that will give you a breakdown of the percentage of homes that sold, in various price ranges, for a given zip code.