It usually takes multiple phone calls.

What's the best/cheapest way to skip trace phone numbers from houses i find from driving for dollars?

I see a few of these every month from wholesalers with a 100k+ spread but like @Brian Pulaski said, ARV is high and repair estimate is low.

A condo is similar to a house but with a lot less control over the investment:The HOA can hit you with "special assessment" fees whenever they want to make a large repair, hurting your cash flow. 

Since they meet our prescreen minimums our next step would be a phone call then set up a walk through then the application.

Where are you allocating the funds to get the phones ringing and fill your pipeline?

That's all in meaning any repairs done and ready to rent. 

If all goes as planned I hope to begin investing in February (after the wedding); until then I'll be building contacts, browsing the MLS, and doing calculations on properties i find.A bit about myself; my father raised me to be independent and do manual labor myself and now because of him, I do many of the home repairs myself and like to believe I'm fully capable of being my own property manager (currently own a home i purchased thinking i could grow into).

I looked at the tenant's bill for the same quarter the previous year as a benchmark and immediately and voluntarily paid half the big water bill, and again paid about a third of the bill for the quarter during which the repair was made.

I just got off the phone with a potential seller.