You need to get educated and fast....I know it's overwhelming, but you need to be spending a couple hours a day on sites like this Forum, reading books and watching YT videos.

There is no other investment class as powerful, using leverage to buy and control, as real estate.

I've been hesitant to go into business with friends, but it could be a powerful play, and a valuable learning experience.

@Jessica Carcamo I would suggest starting with one strategy first and go hard until you succeed, trying all those at once with no experience can be overwhelming.

Hey @Steven Barr, I suspect the various clerks were just being cranky and/or having a laugh at your expense.Every county in Georgia has a physical "newspaper of record" where foreclosure notices (AKA "Notices of Sale Under Power") are required to be listed.Fortunately, there's also a FREE website (https://www.georgiapublicnotice.com/) that aggregates data across multiple Georgia counties into a single, searchable database, bless their hearts!

Absent a clause in a trust that provides for a beneficiary to designate powers of sale (or will, if that’s the controlling document) then you are just an interested buyer party.  

It's a thrilling and rewarding world, but it can also be overwhelming for newcomers.

Been thinking about taking on a personal loan of 50-70k for purchasing power in my Midwest market, the loan would just be for down payments and closing costs on sub 85k SFH / Duplex properties.

If you are set on selling, sounds like you can also do a 1031 exchange to defer capital gains tax on the sell which would strengthen your buying power as well.

Other times the power was off and we got a full inspection and asked the inspector to keep an eye out for anything that looked strange and everything worked fine.