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Elizabeth Zielinski
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Troy, MI
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Looking Up An Owner’s Contact Information

Elizabeth Zielinski
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Troy, MI
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Hello! I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.

There's a house on my street that's been vacant for a few months. It's got a few city tags on the window, and I came home not too long ago and there was a foreclosure notice taped to the front door. It looks like the owner hasn't paid taxes in a while. Seeing a potential opportunity, I found the owner on MLS. The only issue is that the phone number and address listed both with the city and on MLS are invalid. The phone number is to a man who had no idea what I was talking about (owner is listed as a woman), and I went to the listed mailing address (different city than the property location), but the people who lived there weren't the owners either.

I don’t know what else to do. Any ideas on how to hunt down the owner? Thanks in advance.

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David Barnett
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Cambridge, MA
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David Barnett
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Cambridge, MA
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@Elizabeth Zielinski By any chance, did you go to the tax assessors website for the property?  In the area that I invest, the tax assessors website has a phone number of the owner (if they took out a loan).  Even if the taxes are delinquent, the tax notices have to go somewhere...

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