Do they do a public records search  for evictions, judgments, liens etc?

Commercial brokers will know more becasue they have to... they get the contract and hand it off and the deals i have done there i get inspection addendum's written by the attorneys and boy that is very dysfunctional.. no explanations as they are getting flat fee's and spend zero time doing what needs to be done to keep transactions together the little things the public does not see. but anyway thought provoking.... 100.00 and hour is a pittance to a seasoned agent.. don't see that flying.. but to a mid level or starter who comes from a back ground of getting paid by the hour..

You must still own all of the sold tax liens up until the date you bring your foreclosure lawsuit.Anyone with redemption rights can ask for a public auction.

I wouldn't buy anything that's more than 15 minutes from the Chimney Rock strip or otherwise the public beach.

There will probably be a paper trail that is public record that someone can follow.

I like these amongst ,many other right nowREXR - (Rexford) they are a niche (sub-specialist) in industrial warehouse/distribution/manufacturing in the southern California only urban or Infil area, they are not international like PLD - prologis, their MOAT is that SO-Cal has geographic limitation to new inventory, so they have rent pricing power that industrial in rest of country doesn't, also 26 million people in so-Cal and the 2 busiest Ports in country, their earning/revenue projections next few years are best in class, and they are cheaper on price to book than PLD or others, I own some and will buy a lot more in upcoming Recession, likely in next 6-12 months, when publicly traded equities will likely slide by 20-30% although their assets (physical buildings) are only going up in valueVICI- (casino REIT), used to be part of Cesars palace, then Caesars spun them out in 2018, to do sale leasebacks of their properties to take all that physical capex off the books.

I ran an O&E and I got:- "notice of election and demand for sale by public trustee"  this is for about 350k and I assume is the lender whom he didn't pay- "MERS assignment of deed of trust"  I'm not sure what this is but I think it's related to a quit claim deed where he added his wife to the deed thinking it would shield him from foreclosure.

Fast forward 14 months later, through following what David and Cody teach we now have multiple signed LOIs from National, publicly traded, home builders that will net us multiple seven figures.

No renovations, no interfacing with public, contractors, vendors, tenants, property management, etc.

Now, if someone has redemption rights they can demand a public auction at conclusion of the lien foreclosure lawsuit.