The Lottery or many ways of gambling come to mind here. 

From talking to neighbors, they are spamming anyone with a house in this area, since we are experiencing notable appreciation but are still very affordable compared to the rest of the US. 

Are you spamming us?

You contract to buy with a down payment then pay an annuity to the seller for the sellers life, the seller stay in the property like a life estate. when the seller dies ,the property is then yours, Your gambling on the life of the seller.

The coaching pitch kills me as I still keep emails from him even after I've unsubscribed, added it to my spam list, etc.

sounds dumb but if they truly only owe low 90s offer them 145,000 let title ferret out any other issues otherwise I would pursue this as fast as you can provided your intel is good,  otherwise very little cost to you and you would have control over property, or if you want to really gamble buy the note from bank foreclose the current bower flush all debt. except taxes and some municipal liens and enjoy

It is a lot of money and time to spend to be somewhere you do not want to be.Are you so passionate about the Investment world, that you are willing to gamble the security a degree may provide?  

you are not part of the case....you could possibly file motion to intervene, have a judge listen to you and allow you to move along with your plan... to me there are a lot of unknown...dont have that much gamble in me ...

I received a ton of seo spam on both the blog and my e-mail, but no leads.Again, I didn't work hard at it.  

Spam.