Also you can pay for Reonomy and find pre-foreclosures, foreclosures and lots of other types of situations.You can also call commercial banks and ask for the REO Dept or special assets manager and get a list of properties.

You can also buy lists from companies like list source and there are some REI software companies that have a cash buyer search feature.Best way to find motivated sellers is to purchase lists and compile lists from city and county for 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, probate, divorce, high equity, etc. and mail or cold call.Other free methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites, put out bandit signs, If you have the funds you can use billboards, newspaper ads, other offline publications., TV commercials, radio ads, do pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is consistency.

I bought a 6/3 in NOVA DC suburbs (250k during foreclosure crisis, worth about 400k now) and it generates roughly $4000/mo of rent on a 1650 mortgage.

I’m sure there are foreclosures happening all the time- all over the place.

When I say "list" I'm referring to a third party providing you motivated sellers such as Tax Delinquent List, Pre-foreclosure list, Probate list, etc.. rather than you going to the county to get that list yourself but does anyone know to get the list from their county?

Are they in foreclosure?

For example, the foreclosure crisis of 2008-2009 saw a median home price for the state actually increase.

I found the lowest prices at foreclosure auctions, so I am taking a closer look at that. 

I’ve paid for list ( absentee owners, high equity, pre-foreclosure, etc) and honestly it wasn’t worth the money.

The leads are not as fresh, necessarily as the lists mentioned above, but you can do intersting things to "stack" lists to get people that are in pre-foreclosure *and* out of state *and* have a tax lien *and* are not listed on the MLS.