@Alex Bockey - Agreed with what the people above have said.

Keep in mind those people will live somewhere and SOME of them will be good tenants!

You should be able to get some people there who are qualified to do that kind of research for you. 

Bathrooms if you can zero threshold people love those and as they age out they need it anyway but that would be for main level. 

When people bring up Subject To (very risky) and private money it's usually because they have seen a lot of scaling content.

And when I speak with people (or write on my blog) I'm always VERY transparent about the unique challenges of the market there.

Having lived there a year it is a foreign country and many things are different and culture etc plus you have the native peoples that own huge amounts of real estate and They dont pay income tax and they get food and gas for way cheaper etc etc..

Some people have gotten lucky in the past, and the market has carried them through everything.

There are also deals that can be find on jud.ct.gov for foreclosure auctions but those rarely work out because the people usually owe more than the property is worth or they get cancelled and postponed frequently. 

Most people didn't want to touch it.