My take on Chicagoland is despite the possibility of property tax hikes you still have outstanding cash flow possibilities throughout a very large portion of the real estate and rental market there.

I have no outstanding debts but have very little savings behind me due to the inability to save.  

Once you've committed to eliminating the outstanding bills that you have, you'll have more credibility with investors.

Hopefully you understand that you must redeem/pay for all the other outstanding tax certificates on a property to send your certificate to tax deed auction.

If you can figure out if there are any outstanding liens, violations, etc, you can come up with your MAO for each...

Hi guys, I left out one very important detail in my post: all calls are coming from vacant shells riddled with City of Philadelphia code violations and burdened by large outstanding property tax bills and high utilities balances.I checked with my mailing guy and it turns out he pulled a mailing list I didn't approve and sent more than 1,000 letters to the addresses on it. 

I know Memphis is primarily a rental market, BUT it's also a buyers' market & I've come across some great properties with outstanding potential in the Cordova area.

However I have a strong ability to find outstanding deals.

Adding to what @Mike Hartzog listed above, as the noteholder you can also negotiate a lower balance/payment per month with the borrower due to the flexibility of buying the note at a lower price than the outstanding unpaid balance.

They did pay the outstanding gas bill last Friday.