You can begin to shore up your personal case to defend AP/PE before they ever file.

Awesome! 

As-is cap rate of 7.5% in my market (kc) would be pretty awesome to buy. 

Both cities are awesome for investing.  

So this is not a generalization to every market...Furnish finder is awesome.

Appraisals came back awesome my credit score came back 720.

Also consider contacting houses that look vacant, simply door knocking in a neighborhood that you are interested in and talking to the homeowners in a genuine way, For Sale By Owners is another potential, using an App like Nextdoor or Facebook pages/groups related to local real estate and just telling the group what you are looking for, contractors also know about houses coming on the market soon and so do property management companies, and finally garage sales are a good way to find off-market properties as people prepare to sell.To Your Success!

@Yaroslav Shtogun assuming this is something you can tackle yourself and with your network doing the full deal would be an awesome project for you!

This is awesome info, thank you!!

Awesome words of wisdom from Mike as usual (I'm glad you're back!).