Search Online The early bird gets the worm.

It's a manufactured home on land that needs to be rehabbed and will cash flow well.I'm in search of a private lender/equity partner to work closely with on a 7 year note to fund this opportunity.

@Abou, I would take a slightly different tactic....instead of looking for the owners that are distressed/retired/wanting to sell, I'd start with searching for the type of property you'd most want to acquire.....let's say it's 5-10 unit building in a particular neighborhood. 

Search for them for more information.Carpe Diem.

There are other FHA requirements concerning which you should contact your local lender, but determining whether or not a triplex or fourplex meets the self-sufficiency rule is a good place to start as this rule will immediately eliminate many properties from your search.  

Anthony, where there is a will there's a way, I'm sure if you find an amazing deal you could find a lender willing to work with you if you search hard enough.

Recently I've been reaching out to other investors and people in real estate and have learned it's WAYYY easier to ask somebody a question and get an answer than go searching through books and internet posts.great advice.

In these days of Internet real estate searching, there's a belief that physical real estate office location doesn't matter and that walk-in traffic doesn't exist.  

Learn one fact:  Google search makes domain names insignificant!!!

You have to narrow down your search otherwise you will get everything in that zip code.