Well, the tenant buyer would wreck the place and move out in the middle of the night.

They have a problem and you have a solution and they will choose to let the process run its course and have their credit wrecked.

A house in Hayward that's a wreck with acre lot and rehab and add a unit, hold long term?

Many tenants would just run it as is allowing it to slowly wreck your floors. 

I have had animals in a very nice house in Cleveland Hights nice area, wreck the place. **** happens everywhere. 

We haven't had much luck closing off market deals in the neighborhoods we're active in (Class A / B+ neighborhoods for the most part), and when you can get that kind of MLS action on absolutely wrecked properties I'm sure other investors are having as much trouble scoring deals off market as we are. 

Its a great way for eliminating shady operators or non genuine peopleThese guys you don't want to do business with as its a train wreck waiting to happen.The other 1% might genuinely have your best interests at heart and there could be potential on a long term business relationship.I have been based in KC since September 2012 and it took me 18months of doing this before I finally moved here.

Maybe since the place is a wreck, the owner doesn't know she can sell?

Bill GulleyWhile I was looking for your earlier post yesterday, I came across this one you wrote and I loved the analogy:"Buying a NPN is much like buying a wrecked car, can you really fix it, buying from a broker where the note is reinstated and performing is buying a wrecked car that has been rebuilt to pass inspection.

The advantage we had was when we bought it the house was a wreck and needed a lot of work.