For information of this nature, you are going to need the records of the office that records deeds and other information (sometimes the Clerk and Recorder, sometimes the Recorder of Deeds, etc.) or the records of the Court (for a Lis Pendens).  

Garage conversions usually aren't a problem but if you're concerned, you should check with your local planning and zoning office.  

Each state's Real Estate Commission states when you buy and sell Real Property that it must comply with the states Code of ethics, yes you can draw up any document and buy them from the local office store.

This would be things like the telephone line, office supplies, tenant screening, corporate fees, tax return, property tax consultant, software contracts, uniforms, and so on.  

if you like you can go to okwholesaleproperties.com and put in you specific desires it will link directly to my back office and when I get a property that matches your criteria it will automatically notify you

Politics and religion are the only things that screw it up.  

Network, social clubs, chamber of commerce, newspaper advertising , craiglist, car signs, Youtube, investor clubs, school board meetings, church groups, Personal lawyer, mailings, foreclosure lists, neighborhood door knocking, drive bys, grocery store bulletin boards, Trulia, Zillow, realtors, expired listings, RealtorTrac, FSBO, Garage sales, Open houses, Family reunions, Fire truck chaser, Funeral chaser, Floods, Classified ads, Apartment rental listings in newspaper, Current Tenants, Hud home auctions and listings, REO's, Real Estate auctions, Auctioneers, Appraisers, Relationships with Building code inspectors and others in office, Propertry Tax sales, Sheriff auction sales, Soliciting mailings to Probate lawyers, Real Estate seller lead providers, GURUS that have lead programs, Start an RE investment club locally, Hold seminars local on how to buy a home or sell your home. and on and on and on.

My company also has an office in Durham so the transition to NC might be easier for us.  

I'm no veteran agent or a million-dollar producer (yet) but I have learned a ton by making my own mistakes as well as watching what the great, and not so great, agents in my office do. 

@Thomas GarzaMy fiancee is a realtor and a property manager, as myself, I mork for an investor friendly mortgage company as a loan officer.