For this they offer a web landing page and marketing for direct mail, email , texting, and FB/social media to bring interested cash buyers for fix and flips. 

You can go to tax assessors web site, find property by plugging in address and the looking for current tax payment.

Some of the agents might have a Web site or a Facebook page that you can follow.

Fancy spreadsheets from Bigger Pockets or other Web sites look nice but are for evaluating your own fix and flip profit, not when you are wholesaling.

I have never really had a hard time renting my places though, if you look at my web site and see what we make them look like, you will see that my places are all nice.

It is all web meetings and the conferences I had planned have all been cancelled.

Talk to auctioneers and their associates, ask them to notify you of recently booked properties (before they are advertised).Be ready with your money that will be needed at the auction, check your finances, Apply for a credit line.As for books to read, I would suggest you subscribe to all of the legal and business publications in the area where auctions are advertised, read the auctioneers web sites for up coming sales, read files at the court houses, down load the legal requirements that lenders are required to follow.

Technology is my business, but I have never been on the buying / investment end of a web property.

When I was typing my last response I saw an ad on the side of the web page for Finance of America - Commercial.

That might be a good litmus test.Bottom line.Consider investing 10 to 20 hours a week reading everything here on BP and then other info you can find on the web.