I am thinking about going "door knocking" to a pre-foreclosure

[Joe Ellis]

I'm looking to move further west (I live in North Las Vegas currently) and I was doing some digging and found myself in the "pre-foreclosure" area of one of the websites. I found a house that looks nice from the outside (Google Mapped it and the neighborhood, yes I know those are outdated) and I was thinking about driving over to the house right now and knocking on the guy's door and just asking him if I could help him prevent foreclosure by essentially buying his house from him. I don't have access to financing so I would have to have him owner finance, but instead of just giving my money to this guy and trusting that he'll pay the bank I will just get in contact with the bank and pay them myself. Does anyone know if this will work? Thank you all for your advice!