And Nathan, I don't want to give the impression that the current owners are cranky old bitter people who blame the bank because they can't pay their mortgage.

From the start they were bitter and nasty and complained about every sound they heard from every apartment.

A bitter pill to swallow but they are on the rise now and have come up as much as $30kRecently though there seems to be a rash of sales that are much higher then what current value would point to.

Odds are if she reared her ugly head after a decade and is making it difficult now, she is going to go down hard.Keep it in reserve and watch it, but I would get out while you can without any harm.Clearly she is still bitter.

Bill I truly hope you stop your bitter ways and start helping more people than you are condescending.

I call this a "heads up" letter.If mailed sufficiently well in advance of sale, I'll receive a number of nixies that I can skip-trace or reverse engineer to either find the owners or buy the lenders note and decide my best play forward.Second letter might contain some special message or attention getting device to encourage that letter gets opened and read and generates a lead call (call-to-action, also know as a CTA).Time permitting, I might segment the list further and create highly targeted, specialized letters that address a host of problems unique to their situation, which I call a "Perfect Storm" letter.Ultimately, my objective is to out-spend and out-research you as my same business rival.

Is there a potential risk where a bitter owner might trash the house upon closing--or does that generally happen more with foreclosures?  

One who leverage heavily before crash had a bitter experience.

I know you have yellow pine out your way not sure on the price per MBF however I suspect the old growth no knot stuff could rival our doug fir.6.

   :)   or come to Oregon were there is none of this.. and our appreciation rivals anything in the US we get a ton of in flow from Texans wanting to beat the crappy weather there...