Starting out

Had a sensational first day on working from Dean's 30 day plan. Set up my e-mail account, got onto this forum to read some experiences and made my first call to a realtor got me a woman eager to work with investors. I requested a list of cash sales in the last 90 days in the hot local areas she suggested, and she had a list in my hands of 27 MLS listings within a couple of hours. I decided to skip ahead to week 2 and order my business cards.
I took notes on her list this morning and went to the assessor's office to look up purchasers on their computer. On the way I drove by a property in my town that was on her list and a realtor's sign was in front. Sure enough I discovered the property owners on her list had owned the properties for several years. She sent me a list of properties for sale, not ones already sold. I called and asked to see if we were on the right page and she said MLS doesn't show cash sales and she didn't have the time to try and pull that out. Tomorrow's a holiday, so I'll start over with another agent on Thursday.
Meanwhile I interviewed a recent divorcee who wants to sell her property due to bad memories of being beaten by her ex, and a new love interest in another town. The ex- turned the house over to her including an $80,000 mortgage dating back to the 80s and a $27,000 second mortgage. The assessor givss it a fair market value of $85,000 but she just wants out of there. I'll have a nice deal for some investor within the week. Across the street is a nicer house, vacant for some time, the owner in a nursing home and he knows that will be where he spends his remaining days. I talked to him 3 years ago when I first read Dean's books, but wasn't ready to act then. He's German and has the same surname as my great-grandmother from New Ulm, so I'll probably spend my holiday visiting him in the nursing home und sprechen lit deutsch mit ihn. Hopefully the 12 years I spent with my ex, who taught me German, will finally pay off.