welcome to bidding ATL.... frustrating there.. we did it for about 18 months.. its a zoo.but collusion does happen.. you should follow the address and get a copy of the trustee's deed or sherrifs deed or whatever deed transfers title and see what amount is on it.. if that is published I can't remember if they do that.If you suspect collusion this is an FBI matter.. and far more common than you might think.. the local DA or AG may take it up.. and of course you have the state BAR association if this was a law firm crying the sale... in our area criers are generally process serving companies not lawyers.

There's a really old one by Nick Sedoti that I listened to but it's terribly out of date, and the Medicaid rules have changed since he published it.

Thing is, the National Association of Realtors published a "Danger Report" in May of 2015 that said the #1 threat to Real Estate Agents is "Masses of Marginal Agents Destroy Reputation: The real estate industry is saddled with a large number of part-time, untrained, unethical, and/or incompetent agents.

If a portion of the rent is payable by a government agency, the court will determine and note in the judgment the portion of the rent to be paid by the government agency and the portion to be paid by the tenant.

After reading most of Robert Kiyosaki's books, I started to read the books published by BP.

what you described is a  drop bid... where your following a property and the opening published bid is say 100k you stop following it because its only worth 90K  so day of the auction your standing there and the bank opens at 47,500. and your thinking what the F... well that is called a drop bid.. the pro's I say that loosly the companies or investors that do this for a living and buy volume will understand that there are drop bids and be prepared to bid on every property going to sale.. that's the way you make money at the auction. and its one reason in most counties the casual investor is wasting time trying to compete with the guys that do it for a living. some of my very best deals I got in Portlandia were this exact scenario I liked the property and even though the opening bid was way higher than anyone would bid..

A couple of years ago Texas Monthly published an article about why Texas was "bubble proof".  

I bet there are check lists out there already published for one to use though !!

Rich Dad Poor Dad and The Cash Flow Quadrant for the Mindset4 Hour Work WeekAll 3 of Mitch Stephen's books (the most recent isn't yet published, but will be shortly).Are you Dumb Enough to be Rich?

I have several of the most amazing partners in my real estate brokerage, in a book being published, in a hard money fund, in co-organizing a self-directed IRA group, and in some real estate deals.