You pay a higher price for beautiful properties because you are competing with owner occupants. 

If you have a partner and are a minority owner or LP in the deal, you may find something, but that doesnt sound to be the case from your description.

The list comes out at least 30 days before the sale and the owners have opportunities to pay off the debt anytime in those 30 days. 

Owner occupied united increased by 8.4%"Still, although the overall share of households that rented decreased, the number of rented units increased by over a million units (43.3 million to 44.6 million)."

I suspect maximizing the investment might make it slightly less desirable as an owner or at least the renovations might have lower ROI if sold to a homeowner.

Ask to speak with some of their current owners and current/former tenants.

Up until November, actively licensed VRD (Vacation Rental Dwellings) could transfer one time to the new owner.

Hi, I am the owner of DealMachine.

for me  a handful since early 80s  now in those days I was ONLY buying land that had owner contracts on them. 

What are other ways to get this property with out having to owner occupy, FHA, conventional?