Wholesailing: Contacting Owner

[Wesley Willis]

I've been researching real estate investing off and on for the past 3 years.

I figured the best way to get my feet wet in REI is wholesaling (being that I'm a broke college graduate with outstanding student loan debt). I even set up an LLC to get hard money loans for fix & flips or fix & hold but couldn't get around it. So wholesaling I've bee focused on

At one point I put up bandit signs(city takes them down shortly after), set up my website, etc. No seller leads, but I have a few for my buyers list. 

So I drive for dollars and see quite a few abandoned houses in my area. I write the address down, go to my tax assessor office for the property owner info. A lot of the time the address/contact info is the same as the property address, being that the owner no longer lives there, how do I get contact with the owner? Or if its bank owned, how do I figure out which bank? I'm pretty much stuck...