Would be easy to throw on the MLS and sell for profit but the numbers make sense for a long-term rental.Anyone who has purchased a tax foreclosed property - have you had an issue with prior liens after receiving a tax deed?

There are already statutes and regulations regarding fraud and deception in real estate transactions.Educating people who want to be educated is fine, but if a governing body restricts the pool of ready and willing buyers, more properties will go to foreclosure and sit on the market longer.Real estate investors perform a vital function in every jurisdiction: putting properties back on the market, in good condition.Many of the properties they buy could never pass conventional lender's inspection because they typically require tens of thousands of dollars in repairs that most homeowners do not have or cannot do themselves.Additionally, many real estate investors near metropolitan centers can access almost an unlimited pool of funding to buy and remodel properties if the numbers work.From contract to close, the time can be in as little as 3-4 business days.The delay is mostly waiting on title companies.So when flippers mail letters and post cards to owners saying they can "close quick" and "all cash", that is a fact, not fraud.Of course, realtors will recommend you list your property – that's how they make money – so they are self-interested, which makes the report biased.Maybe next time you can have a "flipper" on you show for balanced reporting.The idea of anyone feeling "pressured" by getting a post card or flyer is ludicrous.If the homeowner doesn't want to sell, the solution is to throw them away.But the idea of "there ought to be a law" is equally ludicrous.If there are bad actors committing fraud, the answer is to enforce the laws already on the books.Out of all the properties posted for sale every 1st Tuesday of the month at the trustee's sale, a very large percentage never make it because they are bought by the very flippers you disparaged.If not for the real estate investing community, cities around the country would look much, much worse.My biggest complaint with your report is that you completely failed to get the rest of the story.Your editor needs address this."

Once they realize it has no use to them, they simply throw it back down until the next person picks it up. 

They use RMLS and make sure to try to throw that net as broadly as they can.

That doesn't mean that they won't throw you a few bucks to keep good will.

Also if you throw in a BBQ, make sure the last tenant didn't use all the propane! 

We've already potentially lost a lot here and tough to throw more good money at a potentially losing situation. 

Like maybe I could hire a contractor to go and fence off the area properly, but it would have to be a contractor who won't just leave if the guy is there, but who will call the police, wait for them to show up, throw out his stuff, and then finish the job.

I'm not ready to compromise just because the market has gone insane-still want a quality property that throws off lots of cash.

.- like throwing all of his daughters clothes in the yard...???