Best place to start is to meet the players!

Are most of these people game players, deceiving sellers, etc?

All investors need to get to know their market and the players in that market.

Most importantly you need to convey confidence and assurance you are a player and not just wasting their time.

This is not the only thing happening in or around Greensboro, as almost all cities in Triad benefit when big players move to any of them.

If it's a desirable piece of land then the developer will not lot it go for cheap.I do commercial all day long and I am a developer myself.Check if the developer is a big player nationally or a local guy. 

I would never go with an eviction, because they know the game now and all the players and they know that, at the end of the day, they get to live for free for several months.

@Darrell LeeIn the insurance world, the players (insurance companies) for office space are completely different from ones who will write rental property. 

(Call me OCD)Ultimately, I'm believing I may have identified a small niche market here locally for smaller players like myself... we will see!

I rely on "propertyradar.com" for title search, than I pull a property profile for guidance at the county recorder's office to puzzle together loans and re-conveyances, foreclosure notices and releases but have not been able to figure out "how to" estimate default amounts on mortgage liens, for example I am currently looking at this HOA foreclosure schedule for 11-26-14 in which the estimated market value is $484, 397.00, with a standing senior mortgage of $103,000.00 issued on 7/16/2009 and the HOA default in the amount of $22,488.00; There is no other mortgage liens, judgments, special liens, notice of default or notice of trustee sale found and the starting bid is set at $24,950.00I do not know if current mortgage is in default, I just see every day how big players confidently bid huge amounts on this properties and think they would not do it without certain degree of confidence, in other words from my example above how can I estimate the maximum amount to bid if there is no certainty that the senior loan has 80 or 90 thousand dlls. in default, my experience is if someone else has defaulted on the hoa, most likely their mortgage is in default as well.