Personally if you are looking to grow in real estate going the traditional method/way of getting good properties under agreement with traditional financing will get you to where you want to go faster than trying to find all the needles in a haystack.

The risk is that they take only the things of value and leave the rest for you to clean up.2.

Thanks Eric, yes I have thought about it, but after talking it through with the wife she and I agree that BRRRR is going to be our method to our future success.

They must first move out, leave the property broom-cleaned, and then they can pick up the funds at our attorney's office.Most won't agree to all this - so they are liars.

Obviously none of they knew of the fire or looked at the property in the last few days.At tax sale I have seen people have bought:US Army bombing rangeExpired lease on propertyhouse with 3 walls, 4th wall missingsliver of land 2 feet wide50 foot cliff, access by helicopter onlyland at bottom of man made lake (literally underwater property)wetlandsflood plainsunbuildable propertyfailed perk testhistoric dig site, can't disturbproperty with no road frontagecondemned propertyproperty already scheduled for demolition soonformer gas station with leaking gas and oil tanks undergrounddry cleaning plant with toxic wasteSuper fund sitechromium factory with tanks and barrels of an unknown liquiddistillery with full barrells (ATF and state government was very interested and wanted to seize and destroy those barrells)Bigger Pockets Podcast #82 

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

Handing it over to a professional PM makes for a clean break, but you may be better off hiring a part-time assistant.

I'm looking to buy my first rental property, that I would live in and use the BRRRR method on.

I would highly recommend the "Guns N Roses Method." 

Let's assume your expenses (mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance, vacancy, etc.) comes to a clean $600 and the property rents for $1,000.