Bad investors can mess up deals in any city and good investors can do good deals in any city.The difference between good and bad investors is mostly about learning from past mistakes and stumbling forward.

I stumbled across this site a few minutes ago.

In the event you find yourself in a spot where you can stumble into some allowable contact with the borrower, obviously be careful that you do not negatively affect the account for the Selling Mortgagee.

Either they decided not to sell their primary residence and kept it as a rental or stumbled upon an investment opportunity that fell into their lap (grandma's house).Of course it would be helpful to know more about your situation, but I would recommend just the opposite--as the best way to learn is by doing.  

I stumbled upon his blog (luckily).

I'll report back if i find the solution in case others stumble across this post!

I just keep posting this stuff on the forum just so a someone who may not be familiar with the world of private HML stumbles on it .. 

I stumbled across your post.

There is a 1950 (small) concrete house that I stumbled upon with people willing to sell.  

I stumbled upon the BP site about 2 months ago in search of learning more about buy and hold real estate and have been addicted to the site ever since!