I would say as a general rule, doing a quiet-title action is needed if you want marketable title. http://pennattorneys.com/assets/pennattorneys/asse...Disclaimer: While I’m an attorney licensed to practice in PA, I’m not your attorney.

Guys I'm loving these replies - Just wanted to say  a massive thank you.It's looking much more doable now :) Exciting times!!

The property is in a pretty desirable area I'd say a low B quality area and currently a C property mostly because of age lack of amenities.

It is tough to say.  As

My favorite is when people say, "a correction will happen eventually, it is just a matter of time".

Perhaps you may need to refine your approach and say a lot less than what you're saying and try to get people to just call you back out of curiosity and THEN try to reach your end goal. 

You'd be okay if the scenario was say, a multi-family property and you chose to occupy one of the units.

Being non-Section 8 is not, as they say, a protected class when it comes to fair housing laws.

If you came to me and agreed to pay me x amount of dollars per month for my property I would give it to you on a land contract with say a 10 year balloon and let you do what you need to with it.

And it really helps for renters or buyers to walk in after seeing a bunch of dated gross properties and say “WOW!