I've been listening to the podcast and reading the blog for a few months now and finally jumped into the community.I actually "house-hacked" 10 years ago when I bought a two-family while in grad school despite my parents urging me to do a "safer" single-family.

As always, remember the public data being utilized may not always be correct.

Once you find a property and finalize the deal, they will likely verify your income, credit, etc... to be sure nothing changed drastically. 

Hi all!I am Michael Whitener from Temple, Tx. about 60 miles north of Austin. I have been a bathtub and counter top refinisher for 13 years now. I have also repaired almost everything in a home. i only avoid major ele...

My question, how do i find the owners for these properties if their is no data trail on the county auditors website?  

Finally contacted the listing agent saying what the heck and the next day the auction website let us put a PA on it since we had been the highest bidder in 8 months. 

This site is great and I finally decided to come out of the shadows and become a member. 

Basically the owner gets the bill from the utility company and pays the bill, then they use a different company to take in the data from all the submeters collected from the BMS system to write their own bills to the tenants to get reimbursed.  

Then the HUD will probably do a best and final with the top 2-5 bidders in each area.  

You'll go broke waiting for the day that Detroit finally turns around.