he has a new life with a new lady in a new state and he just wants a little money for the place....he is retired with a pension and his kids kinda abandoned him...

OK, will if the home owner abandoned the house isn't the redemtion period drop down to only 30 days.

Greetings from our soggy nation's capital. i'm a wholesaler specializing in vacants and abandons between DC and baltimore. if you invest in that area or are looking to invest in these areas give me a shout. let's make some $$$ together.

I've already created a website myself to acquire leads, made myself visible on social media sites, made business cards, sent a couple of letters to houses that looked abandon through driving for dollars (no responds), and continuously tell new people that I am an investor who is purchasing homes in the area and would give them referrals if they assist me in finding a motivated seller.

Property had been been abandoned by the owners and no payment had made in over 7 years.

I just wasn't sure IF there were any proven RE investment strategies for capitalizing from an abandoned building with little to no capital.

I know most of you always look for crazy deals... but at what cash flow do you abandon your typical formula and pay full price for a property?

Called bank on "abandoned" property but they havn't taken action for 3 years and probably won't becuase the county will get the property and the bank will be out at least 150k, so they have no real incentive to move on this at the moment.What I have done:1) HOA won't help at all, and had no advice.2) Low Income housing authority says they are looking into it, but no action so far and apparently the owner has to sell or sign the property back over to them for anything to really happen.3) Health department and Code Compliance department are "investigating" but no real action either.4) Called bank/servicing company, but they havn't done anything as they have no incentive and it would take 90 days to evict people anyway.5) Called police on the fights and they have come, but they are still there.6) Got the owners number and talked to him when he showed up one day (driving his lexus).

Abandoned property laws are state specific.

They grew up in the depression and don't like the market much and remember lots of abandoned houses.