A good way to find deals is by connecting with local real estate agents, wholesalers, or checking out sites like Facebook groups and Craigslist.

This sewer line runs under 2 of the other subdivided lots that were intended to have houses on them about 400' away and ties into a city main 1 block away from the houseOct 2008 - I purchase the home and everything is great, assuming all is per plan.2010 - Developer sells one of the lots that my sewer runs under to the water district for a future clean water well site. 

but I suspect homesites will drive the best values.. no one wants logged over sites for building ( generally speaking)  it works here in the Northwest because of the incredible shortage of buildable land. but in other areas not so much

And those who purchase the timber rights then come in, at there own expense, with there own equipment, there own operations, harvest, site mill, do whatever reclamation and then leave. 

There were also no records of any people storing units on the site.

Another thing is, the sites that list the manufacture year showed that all the ones I was looking at were built in the 70s.

We had just listened to a podcast with Marco from Norada as the guest (Passive Wealth Strategies for Busy Professionals: Demystifying Turnkey Real Estate Investing) and were reviewing the information about the notes on their site.

I feel in real estate if one is truly involved in it these are two of the most important sites utilized.

But he had security on site during rehab taking ID's etc.. he determined a lot of the theft was from the workers who knew exactly what was installed during the day and stolen at night.. 

and very easy to go on line pop companies names in or the MLO name in the system to see if they are real.. if they pop up on that site then they are for sure real.