Ideally I want a purchase price of no more that 150K per home.  

Zero maintenance fees and minimal vacancy is obviously ideal and best case scenario.  

I deal with a lot of different contractors and have been building a team and not really realizing that I was doing it..

My partner and I deal directly with the seller. 

Maybe a movie latter.. 

I would recommend targeting ideal neighborhoods based on likelihood of a good deal.

California is not an ideal market so I will be looking at different markets over the next few months and aim to start my next stage of investing in March / April 2015.I am new to out of state investing (and went to school at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where the motto is "learn by doing") so I want to spend a minimum of a few months in my desired market, personally building my team and portfolio. 

I deal with enough new and experienced investors to understand what damage such a silly statement could actually make.

I've been collecting info on direct mail prospect in excel but its a pain in the "tookus" let's cal it to add to that data and then recall only certain line items that match the criteria i'd like to mail to.Hopefully by tinkering around with access I'll be able to build a simple-yet-effective database.A cloud-based CRM/Database would be ideal, huh?

Most of those listing there are probably not going to take much less than market value so it may not be the best for what an investor is trying to achieve (at least, as @Bill Coleman mentioned, it's not ideal here in Denver).