@Steven HoylerThere are many real estate investing networking events in New York.You can search through BP's events section or go on Meetup.com.BP's Events section shows the following events occurring in NY in the near future.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-events-an...

We did a quick search and found this article: https://www.trulia.com/voices/Home_Buying/Can_i_bu...Would be interested to see what you come across! 

@Ron S. even though CA law says 5 days and full payment needs to be made this can be waved by the bank.. they are not obligated to though as you so correctly point out.basically you need to do these deals outside of escrow you need to know how to do your own quick search and take the title risk.. then you get the seller to sign a grant deed over to you and you go record it.. then you get your funds wired or cashier check couriered to the trustee.that's how we did it.. not enough time to use title company.. that's why its so profitable if done right 98% of your competition simply can't do this  either lack of knowledge or lack of funds or both..

Other times, this stuff is on another site at the county (like the county recorder of deeds), so you have to take the parcel number, or the subdivision and lot number, from the tax records, and do another search on that second site to find more information. 

What are good search engines to find good deals for properties so I'm not searching engines that have sky rocketed prices with realtors who will capitalize on overpriced properties?

So I closed on on the property last Friday and discovered in my closing  disclosure I was going  to PAY for Title Insurance,  Settlement fee, title search fees and lean search fee which racked up about another 1k on top of my 15k of commissions. when I questioned why I was paying this my realtor said it that is this was normal practice for the seller to pay this??

I represent many investors in the Pierce/King county area and from my experience, If you move your search more south into the pierce county area you will be able to get a MUCH better deal.

However, when I do a property search on the tax assessors website, many times the Fair Market Value listed by the county is much lower than the properties list price?  

. #5 and #9 Would Be Similar But A Great Way About Getting The Title Search Handled And Processed.

So I've expanded my search out to the West St.