When conducting title searches online, these companies are accessing the local courthouse records and offering them to the public. 

Here are a couple links to IRS information on the topics.https://www.irs.gov/publications/p598https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopicn86.pdf

You need to go to the old phone directories and criss cross directories down at the public library downtown.  

They do not add much additional cost and zero additional time but big ROI on utilities and resale.ComEd looks like it’s for low income and public buildings only not private sector.

After his threats bordered infringing on my personal safety, I searched public court records and found that he has declared bankruptcy twice (this building was rented when I purchased it and the tenants came with it, with very little record of what dd was run on them) and the tenant constantly threatens to withhold rent for minuscule inconveniences. 

It is publicly recorded.

He posted this publicly on  his FB page, so it was easy to figure out where they are going (and their plans to buy).

If I go public in the future, than I will have to switch to a C corporation, but that's a long ways away, if I do it at all. 

I get it.. but most lenders want you to send HUDS of your deals showing you as the principal.. or names of your LLC's you owned the property in.. so they can verify by public records your experience.. working for others generally will not count as experienced flipper..

Occasionally I get leads, but they are usually a pain to value accurately because Westmoreland probably has the worst public records online of any of the countries over here.