To find dealers locally just look at the far sale ads in the newspapers and on Craigslist.

There may be real advertising costs -- newspaper, magazine, website -- or there may be some concerted effort -- open houses, showings, etc -- or there may be time spent -- listing on Craigslist, calling other agents, etc.

We generally run an ad on Craig's list, put a sign out front, or put an ad in the newspaper.

When you run a craigs list ad and newspaper ads, you must keep all of the callers info and start building a list. this way you will already have buyers for your next one.

I also check the online editions of local newspapers to see what is listed.

Travis, there was an article today in the UofM newspaper about some private student housing going up for next year.http://www.mndaily.com/2011/03/30/apartments-rise-vacancy-stays-flat

newspapers?

Starting 15 years ago, all I used was newspapers and networking (actual face to face networking, LOL!)

For example if I had a property and I wanted to sell it- I may feel like marketing to the people on BP first as they are a group of investors, if no takers then I would market to the general public via mls or craigslist or newspaper.

You living there you should have gotten some mail from the lender.The lender usually still believes the homeowner occupies the property so sends notices to the house you are staying at.Kentucky appears to be a judicial (court) state with average time to foreclose 6 months.The property has to appraised before it can be foreclosed and sold.Ways of knowing foreclosure has happened or not should have been provided1.In the letters mailed out by the lender2.The lis pendens (legal notice) filed at the court house.3.Newspaper in the legal notice section.The fact that I pulled this up in under a minute but your broker/agent doesn't know what is going on is scary.If the agent has this listed as a short sale they should have an ATR (authorization to release) signed by the borrower giving them permission to talk to loss mitigation (the lender or servicer) about the file (loan).How you work the short sale will depend on type of loans,junior loans and other liens attached and a whole bunch of other factors.The lender might want the property marketed for sale for so many days to see if higher offers come in that would net more than your offer although the lender might take into consideration you already live there.Month to month you have no foreclosure protection tenant laws.If you had a long term lease in place the bank would have to honor the lease under certain conditions.