If you have the opportunity to chat w/ the tenants while doing your inspection that may unearth what you are about to inherit as well.

They unearthed lawsuits against him for non-payment of debts, foreclosures and other negative information.

@Jack Douglas my primary concerns are a) I am operating in the state of MD, b) My husband has his real estate license, c) I/we are not trying to start a wholesaling business for the sake of wholesaling, we are trying to unearth otherwise unavailable opportunities I guess the no brainer thing to do would be to get on a few wholesalers lists, but that would be the easy way and I typically prefer to reinvent the wheel.I would love to hear the thoughts of two voices I have come across time and again on this topic in the forums: @Russell Brazil and @John Thedford Thanks again!

I would do more digging to unearth any potential problems.

This came out in the third meeting, which means we had over eight hours of focused discussions which were all leading to a green light for the partnership before we unearthed the deal breaker.  

I've found asking the neighbors, asking any local FB or other online groups, and calling related relatives often unearths the person rather quickly.On 2) you definitely want to understand the yellow-tag status regardless of whether you will be buying form the existing owner or the bank -- the situation you will be taking over may well be the same regardless of who you buy from -- the house is likely to still be tagged.

However, you typically need to have some type of buyers list to make this work. ie, a market for the deals you unearth.

I responded to a short member introduction and was delighted to unearth one example of how Bigger Pockets connections matter.It seems that Bryan A has been able to PM and physically meet with a new member here who is looking to do his first rehab.

Steve provides great value in unearthing links here and I always enjoy reading his posts.

In my experience, most of the closed deals are unearthed on the follow-up.