How have you been making payments so far, to a servicer or directly to the seller? 

I have over a decade of experience in strategy consulting and in real estate underwriting for new acquisitions and ground up developments.

JimGo to the city’s assessor’s website and look up the property record.  

Basically anything that I should have before the construction starts.Currently in the step of figuring out how to get home plans and how to work with architects so I have the following questions:1.

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

You will always be able to find a place once you have a city.  

You're the buyer at this point, until the contract is assigned.3. 

@Kedric Naylor, you're at the court's mercy.

The most reliable way is look at other STR's in the area and see what their nightly rates look like over the year and look at their occupancy rates. 

A lot of investors and wholesalers do not have a license for that very reason in this state.