also - when you run an income and expense analysis of a property - if it's an apt complex or multi-family or even a SFH rental - and has been for a few years - getting all those numbers should be a contingency or part of a binder - allowing you access to the sellers income and expense data for the past 2 to 3 years...of course, being an investor yourself - you've got to remember the number one rule for investing (for us anyway) - DON'T TRUST THE SELLER.

I have online access to my county's Public Trustee's records database, but I'm having trouble finding any Notice of Default etc records.

How to you plan on access the second lot?

i'm not sure of the rules either but this might get blocked out.

Fortunately, in our network, we have gained recent access to a large USA-based investment fund that is investing in large-scale development projects.

That way doing even one flip gets you off the starting block.

I.e. someone gives you a phone number and the website can tell you the address associated with that phone number.Obviously there are a lot of problems with certain types of numbers (cell phones and blocked numbers often produce no results).

You could access this information through a buyers agent as Triton stated.

Anyway to access any of the cash you'll have to pay tax on any cash that you do realize.

I'd prefer that it be sold now to avoid rentor/access problems, but think that even a year from now could possibly get a few more thousand, but there's also other building soon to be started in the close proximity, so selling now is probably best.