The real life experience is the best option for learning and gaining the knowledge you need. 

(that is, assuming you've hired an agent with experience, market knowledge, and the wisdom to be able to guide you to what you're looking for). 

Build your portfolio as your knowledge and wealth increase. 

This includes all the tools and knowledge to help potential client’s make informed decisions on their new builds.Beyond guiding us through our investment journey, they also have always offered additional market and property analysis to give us a deeper understanding of the real estate landscape, helping you succeed with confidence.

For those with coverage, whether an occurance of it is covered would be based on how it occured and did/should you have knowledge about the potential for mold.

A Seller financing agreement possibly may not even contain the DOS depending on if an knowledgeable attorney was involved. 

I am also a lender, with Chase Bank, but want to expand my knowledge on hard money and private financing options.

I'm not an attorney or expert in AP specifically, but do have a working knowledge of it for Civil engineering/survey work and have had two projects where this came up and I was able to 'ride along' and see how it unfolded.First, if you 'know' the property has been taken by AP then there's nothing for you to do with the tax assessor etc.

Speak with a local Realtor who knows the market, but also is knowledgeable about creative financing options.Good Investing...

They are 100% correct.The downside sometimes to forums is people have a superman complex and get the impression real estate is easy as they think everyone is doing it and just jump in without the knowledge or expertise.