Couldn't really find a FORUM for this topic, but here goes and I think this should qualify as a innovative strategy question...after all I'm sure there are others out there that wonder the same thing.When driving for dollars D4D, and I have come across a ton of abandoned houses that are not owned by the city/county.

But if it is obviously abandoned, say so in the letter.

Much less time and money invested, much less effort put out and a much smaller payday because of it.People that are good bird dogs are people like mail carriers since they know who is not picking up their mail and might have an abandoned property, bus drivers especially school bus drivers that will go through residential neighborhoods and can see distressed properties all day, people that work in nursing homes (pre-probate list...), firefighters to see places with lots of superficial fire damage, the super chatty soccer mom that is in everyones business and can tell you anything about anyone in their neighborhood, etc.

I am on my way out for my first Driving for Dollars, (Tampa, FL) looking for distressed/vacant and abandoned properties.

If the owner had abandon the property for 30 consecutive days, it's your junk.

I've bought a great many properties prior to probate that sat vacant and abandoned for a period of time.

Investors can help by buying property abandoned or under utilized and funding revitalization.

If I were a betting man, I would bet the tenant abandoned the rental. 

Homes are now being abandoned by owners, converted to REO's.

I go to the location and see a mobile home that is clearly abandoned but looks like a home that can be saved.