I’ve seen cases where the lender filed the deed in lieu, then when the borrower threatened suit offered them a cash settlement to forgo litigation.  

Meanwhile, the sellers who are most likely to offer creative financing are normally the owners of  real estate that have issues.....condition.....low barrier/over supply market......or perhaps pricing issue, and one of these factors is why its not marketable in a arms length transaction and why creative financing would be accepted.

If you really want to get rid of them, sweeten the pot by offering to return their deposit after you verify the unit is empty with no damages. 

Find a good lender, get pre approved, make sure you practice running the #'s using the 100's of videos and guides from BP, find an investor friendly Realtor, and then start making offers on any property that meets your goal.

So i put in an offer for 10% down conventional loan, $530,000 with 10k back to me for closing costs and it was accepted right away.

If for some reason this falls through should I attempt to offer more money for a quit claim deed or proceed with the newspaper notification process. 

While the market can go up or down in either investment, Real Estate is the only one of the two that offers income opportunities through rental income, that stocks don't, and can often help ride out the storm of market fluxes.Also, the Greater Phoenix market (that includes Scottsdale) historically nets 65K+ Californians per year. 

Detroit has tons of distressed properties, and the city is actually offering incentives for investors to come in and fix them up.

Which platform offers fresher data for wholesalers propstream or property radar.

I assumed this would be the case because the rest of what California has to offer kind of sucks.