We got four AO's this week, 2 buyers 2 sellers, and 2 at list price and 2 over.

The house was bought 1/11/17 and the AOS was signed 3/20/17 but the house settles on 5/9/17.

@Rick Alvi  now moving around changes things somewhat but I think one of the biggest over looked items especially west coast investors or good appreciating Chicago or north east areas.. is the 250 single 500k married tax free money you can make by owning a O Occ sfr... its the greatest tax treatment we have in the US in my mind.. 

I want to be certified ao i know how to manage a property, but i dont want that headache.

We agreed to a non-refundable deposit of 5k after we did our due diligence, initiated the AOS and knew we wanted the property.

Hoping to break in and  get this first deal done soon.Cheers,AO

Its not a huge list yet, I did about 200 AO's that I found from local tax records that are within a 2 mile radius of my house.

After the AOS was fully executed I listed the final unit on Facebook and got a lot of interest before I had ownership.

Definitely is for me.If you build a list, say AO in a zip code, and then filter by last recorded date or last market sale date, list source will trim the list WAAAYYY down to only the records they have a date for.

But yes, you could easily find AOs through the MLS system (and I think most have that search option).Sigh.