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.

Time and the law will unearth the truth, but that won't get your money back.When thing go awry to me, I try to find my 1% in the situation.

Hello BP community -- I am so thankful you are here!  Quick question: I just did my FINAL walk-through before closing escrow. There were some minor items but two significant ones: a gas leak near the front door of the...

See what they each have to sell, how they attract customers/prospect, and the different methods each use to find, vet, attract, reach and hook/capture/shoot/trap or unearth. 

@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!

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

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.