You can see who is actively investing in your area and reach out to them by personal email.

By the end of 2016 I'd like to be actively pursuing or closing on a property.I'm looking forward to learning from everyone here, and eventually contributing to this fantastic community.

There's lots of great information here about how to get started, just browse in the forums, listen to the podcasts, ask questions, interact on the site, and by doing that, you'll get to know the people that are active in your areas as well.Good luck!

It seems like a low payoff activity from what you have described to continue pursuing it.  

I have posted numerous adds on Craigslist and I am just not sure how to find my buyers and sellers.

Thank you, I hope to be more active on here in the very near future.

And while I love tenant screening and believe in its value, I am frustrated that there isn't widespread visibility into specific renter payment activity (which would be great for landlords), and even rent payments into credit reports (which would be great for the renters).  

I use Insightly for CRM apart from proprietary CRM software modules as part of two seperate ERP systems in our other lines of businesses (brokerage and property management), it requires some work to set up all processes (pipelines and activity sets for each activity).

I will be actively working part time in 2016 and have a goal of $20 my first year as part time.

So if your goal is to try to maintain the passive nature of real estate activity, it can backfire on you if you are not a real estate professional.