After receiving the judgement, they might try to sell it at auction.

Either way there are times you will lose money, be it due to bad judgement, emotions, markets, under calculating repairs or over estimating ARV.

Add the cost of utilities to your judgement and best of luck with your investment.

What I got a taste for was managing tenants, I had 3 different tenants that were perfect but then I mistakenly let a friend of a friend rent from me and it was a disaster, had to get judgements on them, and never got my money.

I'm not sure whether your tenant is "judgement-proof", in which case it may not be worth it to go to court and just let it go.

First you will need a money judgement.  

Here in Oklahoma I'm gathering that if someone pays off the lien, that that person can charge interest only and move to foreclose if the amount owed is greater than property value and is actually a judgement to settle a debt.

If he doesn't show you can still get a judgement against him, which you can sometimes turn into a warrant for not paying a court ordered judgement.

She didn't show up to court so i was awarded judgement and was told to consult an attorney in regards to going through the process.

However now that he's finally out I want to file a law suit but he cannot be served with a court judgement unless we have a forwarding address which he refuses to provide.