Often times, these new owners will be desperate to sell their old houses ASAP.Contact mortgage companies; they may know of people wanting to sell their old house/last houseHire bird dogs (sometimes even through craigslist “help wanted” ads)Send mailers to Bankruptcy court listingsSend advertisements, business cards to Accountants and CPA Firms: They have clients with financial problems where an investor can be of help.Send ads, mailers, business cards to real estate attorneysAdvertise “We Buy Houses” using Apparel with Logos: Hats, T-Shirts, Golf Shirts,Send to anyone getting their car repossessed: If the car is going the house isn't far behind.Send ads, business cards to carpet cleaners: Many of their customers are preparing a house for sale.Send mailers to charitable groups/churches: They frequently receive gifts of real estate, but they'd rather have the cash.Send ads, business cards to City & County Inspectors: Code violations and red tags.

If you're really desperate you can call supply houses like a plumbing or paint store and see if they will offer up a referral.

He explained that any property given to them (this was 3-4 years ago) was a last desperate chance by the bank to offload it and they'd more or less accept anything.We closed 3 weeks later, and actually went to see it.Essentially, there was some rot in the front room that had put people off buying it.

Unless this is standard in an area, which I doubt, it could be that the PM has landlords who procrastinate too much about repairs and repainting and so forth during the downtime, and out of desperation, the owner of the PM has said "right, you can leave it empty for two months arguing about the paint but your gonna pay me whilst it sits there", and over night, the PM adds a $30 don't piss me off charge.You could just ask them why they have this charge.

I need a motivated, trustworthy, and responsible acquisitions manager asap... desperate here!

However, I'd be concerned about the seller who obviously way overpriced and now he is desperate to contact you over facebook to sell to you.

We have a large Avocado tree and Orange tree on the property so suggested some pick for food when they got desperate.

I was in 2nd position and they were desperate... 

I guess if I was desperate I would consider, but part of my money making strategy is to be on the buy side of a desperation sale, not the sell side.

I desperately want to be able to maintain my current mortgage at the 2.875% rate.