It works, and with a correctly written lease, it is defendable in eviction court.

1st two digits of the case number is year when foreclosure was filedBuy only 1st lean holders, look for banks or financial institutionsAny outstanding leans after LIS PENDANTS - disregardIF many defendants are listed - stay awayLook for expired permitsLook for code violationsLook if the taxes are paidThere are more items that are related on doing the proper due diligence, but those are some major ones. 

If you go to your courts, you can search the court index for cases where BofA was the defendant.

I found that one tenant was a defendant in 2 separate cases against property management companies.

P.S. agents would rather sell because they aren't entrepreneurs by nature (although they will staunchly defend themselves as such since they "own their own business" as an agent).

Recently I attended a sheriff's sale in a different county - on the sale list the only info given was the plaintiff/defendant (i.e.

Apparently you can take the same write offs personally as you can in an LLC, just keep track of expenses diligently and be ready to defend them in an audit, which you should do for an LLC anyway.

I work for a litigation law firm, and based on my experience, when an LLC gets sued, the individual is also named a defendant 100% of the time. 

I'm not defending these guys' actions, but how do we know whether the properties weren't already underwater and the owners already in default?

Most court records show address of plaintiff and defendant ect.