Finding Owners?

[Bob Yon]

I've finally closed on a cash deal through an auction company that took forever to close and am currently in the process of spending too much on rehab expenses but that is a different post.

Right across the street is a vacant house that neighbors tell me has been vacant for more than a year. It looks like one I would like to buy but I can not find the owner. I've asked all the neighbors and tried to contact her via information in the tax records. I found her ex mother-in-law but she was less than excited to help me find the owner. She did tell me that the owner has remarried and divorced again and is probably using her maiden name which she claimed to not know what it was. :-(

Ive searched these forums for information regarding skip traces and didn't find much which makes me think that is not done much.

How do you find long lost owners?

Thanks,
Bob