Of course, if you'd like to skip that learning curve and focus on getting the deals done, there are companies who can help you get online and do the advertising for you very effectively (see 10BillionLeads.com for example).Remember, you ultimately want to own your investing business, not run it.  

We have a correction and you're caught holding a property you can't sell for a 10% discount of what you paid for it especially with this tenant who skipped out on 2 months of rent.

If that's tricky, think about hiring debt collectors or skip tracing services to find the tenant.

I do not know if it is principal things, but rather, it is more a trust issue to me.If I find out a wholesaler tries to make a quick buck off other whosaler's property or from MLS listed property, I would try to skip him and buy from the source, i.e.

Have you tried getting a list of all owners of all the multifamily properties in your area and skip trace their phone numbers?  

You can not skip this step or you will get some stuff you don't really want.

Examples of KPIs can be making 90 cold calls a day, analyzing a deal a day, or skip tracing 20 individuals.I firm believer that if structured correctly we can accomplish goals that would take a year in 12 weeks .

If you have a car and some spare time, you can drive for dollars, skip trace the owner, and call the owner of the property you found while driving for dollars.

This should help you narrow your zip codes.Dont skip your property inspection and would advise to scope the sewer.

And skip having to look through tons of houses all the time sorting through hundreds of houses for 10 years and ending up with 15 individual houses that might make you $500/unit.