Kristine Marie Poe No, no liens ever get folded into the taxes due here.

@Chris Lynch Welcome to the BP fold :) I recommend buying a 2-4 family place as an owner occupied dwelling as your first investment.

First its all in teh list and the more targeted the list the better the results.So a list that targets all home owners is going to not do as well as a list that might target something specific like:Out of State Owners - where you might get people who have moved away or inherited a house they don't want or burned out landlordsUnpaid Taxes - where people are in financial difficulty and going to loose their house to unpaid taxesOwned for a Long Time - where the people might own free and clear orHigh Equity Owners - again free and clearOr even other lists that you might build yourself -Expired MLS LIstings - people who want to sell but did notNOD - people who are have received a notice of defaultLate Pays - people late on their mortgageGarage & Estate Sales - people moving out of their houseAs for a good letter, I have recently used a yellow letter company for a simple I want to buy your house and they make a "handwritten" letter on legal pad paper, fold it weird to put in a thank you card size envelope, with a "handwritten" address, and grandmaesque return address label.It gets opened more, but we do get a lot of calls with people saying they don't want to sell or that we should say we are a company.We tested the straight Dear Mr Jones, we want to buy your house at 123 mainstreet with out our company name or website, just to call us . . that generated more calls than the letter that just went out that added in that we are an investment company and they can call or visit our website . . . can't tell if the results were much different.And personally, you can get all kinds of results, but it comes down to it, you want the motivated people to call you and those people are going to find you letter or not - if you have a website.

There may be a way to fold some of those into the purchase and minimize the tax bill.  

:zzz:I am in the same boat man, I am already an insomniac, and obessive learner, so this has just fed into that 10 fold.

They turned up the friction and the investor folded up shop.

If you book store folds up, the occupancy goes from 100% to 0%.

Install walk boards or secured & taped folded moving cardboard boxes to create a temporary bath from the kitchen through the living room to the front door.

Well, frankly, even with my experience I doubt I would get to a comfortable position to buy these notes in Ohio for the valuation aspects Dion pointed out.If due diligence for NPNs were stated in a flow chart it would take a book with each page having fold out pages 4 fold, if you took each of those 4 fold pages out and placed them edge to edge, top to bottom, I say those pages would cover about 1800 to 2000 square feet.

While I'd like to say that the renovation gets the credit for those types of comments, the renovation makes the house look like every other rehabbed house in the neighborhood, which presumably these buyers have looked at as well -- but they didn't seem to fall in love with those houses.My take on this is two-fold:1.