It's so hard to find a house to flip when the market is so hot. People are paying so much for the homes that need rehab becuase even use buyers are biding on those. I found an off market deal that takes a true rehab s...

Just ask them what they need to clear up.Could be something like there is a break in the chain of title, that they need to clear up, or let's say there is a lien from a bank that is no longer in business.   

The BP forums are a gold mine. 

Gallon of milk is up 20%, gas is up 20%, wages are in theory (lol) up 20%, gold/silver up 20%, bitcoin went up 1000% then dropped 980% 2 milliseconds later (good luck at that casino, and props if you win, someone has to), so it's up 20%, rent is up 20%, stocks on average are up 20%, you get the idea. 

It doesn't get any better than that.I tell myself this all the time, and then I look at how much money we've managed to salt away in the last ten years legally doing it, and not working particularly hard at it, and just following a few simple rules like treating tenants in a buy-and-hold operation with simple dignities, keeping up our end of our contracts, differentiating our product...Jeff, show me anything else that's legal and pays off like a by-the-book mom and pop C-class buy-and-hold operation in a Rust Belt town like the 'Burgh, and I'll show you a gold mine in the ghetto. 

We told them, that damn chain drive was shot, we told them that weeks before and then it jumped just like we said it would, hell no that's not on us!". 

Local shops, not the large national chains, may be open to you coming in an offering to be there go to person for weekend open houses.

Wholefoods and chain gym?

Supply chains are very clogged up and labor is scare.

It feels like the gold rush, everyone marking their listings up 20 to 30% hoping some out of stater comes and buys them to grow pot, cash in hand.