Was the only bidder a majority of the time until recent when 1 other bidder decided to join the party but was only window shopping and probably scared off of the OCCUPIED status)New London County CT  built in the late 80'schecked the public records and found the owner of the home. 

I wrote a blog about the benefits if you want to take a look.https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/9232/55313-intro-to-section-8---your-perceptions-vs-my-realities

check public records to see if ownership has changed.

And pretty much every large builder in my area has a policy of not negotiating with members of the general public, and only negotiating with agents, because they know once you walk through that door, you are buying the place regardless if they move off the price or not. 

The Agency’s investigations are complaint driven, so we rely heavily on the public, and our licensees to bring these individuals to our attention.

Realize the rents on containers might be less than rents on a traditional storage facility because of the perception of the public (it looks like crap to see a bunch of containers side by side, versus an actual storage facility). 

Realtors can search by keywords in the public remarks and agent remarks in MLS.

I promised to not make the amount public but I'll say that it was more than fair for me.

Probably a conversation you want to avoid on a public forum. 

Since you mention the tenants were military, you might want to check out this post for some ideas: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/593030-publicly-shaming-an-evicted-former-tenant-do-it-or-not (not the public shaming part but there were plenty of ideas from posters about how to deal with military tenants who left damages and owing money somewhat similar to your situation)