If you are looking at cooperative properties that is probably not enough.

You may need cooperation from someone from the half sisters side of the family.You may also look into "Adverse Possession" It is sort of a legal form of "Squatters Rights"

Jay Hinrichs so I have spoken to her about it and first off she is 69 years old .... the transaction took place 12 years ago and during that time I guess her and her husband lost a handful of properties to foreclosure so she is a little bit bitter and not really interested in cooperating and told me that I should be talking to a bank or someone else because they took the property from her.... which was false but either way she didn't seem interested in helping at all .... that's why I was looking to see if there was any other options.

I haven't seen many 2-4 family properties on the east side of Haddon, closer to Cooper River park and Haddonfield.

UCR is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of nearly 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention.

@Eric C.My lease requires a 60 day notice, and cooperation on showing the unit.

If the other side is cooperative, you might be able to get it done.

Here are my general thoughts on a few popular areas...1) Cooper Young, Downtown - over saturated, a bit too pricey2) Vollintine Evergreen, Binghampton, Crosstown - Affordable, convenient location for visitors, less saturated, some streets are better than others...3) High Point Terrace, Waynoka, Chickasaw - Great location, less saturated, somewhat affordable. 4) Berclair - Super affordable, very street x street... probably too risky for our first purchase. 

--As an example, let's assume we don't have capital gain or qualified cooperative dividends.

The further out in front of the actual foreclosure you can get the better, to avoid the auction process driving up prices.Short Sales...could be an option, but they are a lot of work to get everything approved by the banks, who are simply not very cooperative at times, and the process can drag out for a year, easy.