I understand there are supposed to be three tears of evaluation for sifting down and separating the good commercial property deals from the rest of the scrap. 

Sift through their old posts - they were probably asking the same questions at one point in time.

You could spend hours/days sifting through county websites and maybe put together a decent list.

Luckily I have access to alot of courses(lindahl,rich dad etc) and software(Realdata,housingalerts) that I can sift through.

I am trying to sift out the slag and retain the golden nuggets. 

I've gotten WAY more leads off the non offer letters but there's a lot of sifting and calling back and negotiating to get the same number of deals from just putting an offer in the letters.

Have some faith in the process, if you consistently get your name out there and what exactly you're interested in, folks WILL find you, and at that point, it's up to you to do your due diligence, analysis, and sift through to find those great deals.

When you have looked at 100 properties, you will be able to sift through the fluff and spot a deal worth pursuing.

My first property (3/2) is ready to rent and I am sifting through applicants.

One suggestion was that the soil will have to be sifted (that sounds like a crazy amount of work), another was to have the soil turned over and another was to get new soil (this would be a prohibitive amount of soil.