With you living in one of the Units, if the expected gross rent return for the other three Units totals near 1.5% of purchase price per month (or even more), then I reckon that would be worthy of deeper investigation! 

No real credit dings, within 30 days as they know you're shopping.The issue is that too many inquiries then begins to look like loan denials, then they and other lenders begin to wonder why, digging deeper to see if they missed something, can also just be this guy can't make up his mind, kind of flakey.

In palm beach county the bid is proxy. which means if I bid $1,000,000 and bidder #2 bid $200,000 - I'll win the property at $200,100.I'll dig deeper and try to realize what the JUDGMENT amount - which means the minimum amount the bank willing to let the property go for.You may find that by searching property name or owner name at the public recordsAnother factor to take into consideration is your competition. how much the property worth, area, rent restriction, HOA fee, cash flow producing percentage.   

I'll check out those sites tonight and I will look into other strategies a little deeper.

With all you guys feed back, it's giving me more confidence to go deeper in this industry.

I am an agent and investor here in Mass as well and can pull some sold comps from MLS for you as well as dig a little deeper to try to see what the actual status of foreclosure is.

This is an area you want to target and dig deeper into.The other way would be to attend your local reia and find the cash buyers and simply ask what areas they are buying in.If you don't have MLS access you should be able to find an agent to pull the recent sales for you.Hope this helps!

Depending on how these latest 4 units go, I will either push deeper into multi family or decide that I prefer the easier, albeit lower margin single family rental market.  

Hi BP, I am hoping some Ohio natives can help me decide if this particular area of Toledo, OH is worth looking deeper into.

I'd be interested in hearing if this could be a viable solution from some of you veterans.That was a idea I was going to use but to be honest digging deeper into the deal, the deal wasn't that good as for as the end buyer was concerned.