looking inside home before auction

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How can I go inside and see a home that is going up for foreclosure before the actual auction? I hate biding on something that you haven t seen the inside of. I am thinking about knocking on the door and in a nice way offering the owner 50.00 cash to let me look around. What have they got to lose? What do you think, and do you have any suggestions? The home that I am looking at is scheduled to go up for auction next month, I got all of the info from the county sheriff’s auction web site. This home is valued at about 214,000 and the bidding starts at around 135,000. The only thing I am worried about is major problems inside. I have heard of people sometimes trashing the homes before they move out, so I was thinking if talks with the current owner go well I could try to make some sort of deal with them that if the property was left in the same shape I saw it at then I could offer them some money say a couple of hundred bucks , assuming I win the auction. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Vic