I am hoping some of the excellent CPAs, such as Amanda Han (get her excellent book "The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor" if you don't have it already) post articles on the new tax plan after it is revealed today.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon.

Run the name of the ower in the Appraisal District and see if he owns any other property, that possibly could reveal his current address. 3.

The auction has wiped out the liens, and a title search before closing will reveal any possible problems.

They will provide the wording in the contract.If the inspection reveals something bad, you could also ask the seller for a price reduction.Keep in mind that my response at the top of the thread was for a small multi-family property being sold by another landlord.  

Tyler,Per my answer to you on a different post, looking at previous results will reveal minimum bids and final selling price.

I'm not about to reveal what regulators do to prepare to go into an area for an investigation or examinations, what I will say is that much of it is on par with what any intelligence agency might do before conducting their activities, having been involved with both.

You can also check obits from the time of death which might reveal family.The biggest issue with these vacant properties is that people fail to perform much basic research about the equity and want to just dig into finding family first.

This equates to a rate of 5 per one thousand inhabitants.Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the borough, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Norristown experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Norristown's rate for property crime is 16 per one thousand population.

I'd go as far as removing and rephrasing this post to something that doesn't reveal the specifics of your inheritance!