I came across a cute little house on a quiet side street marked "CONDEMNED" that struck me as someplace I'd want to buy. I figured I'd look up the owner and make a cash offer. I found the owner's name and address... a...

Kern County areas are not that much of a mystery, just check the mls to get a general idea.

if you get anyone to respond its a normal escrow.. get a purchase and sale contract signed.. take it to your local title company cut your check and close.no mystery to it.. nothing special.. the hard part will be getting any responses.. as stated these folks that are losing houses in OHIO have not made payments in years.. and they have gotten hundreds of these letters.. but you never know .... you could get lucky.

then rent it out.. no mystery.

So where is this mystery house  :)  buyers in that price range normally can stroke a check. so that's not an issue its just finding the right one who wants to live in that area.

I have a 6-unit B class property with all inherited tenants.  It has now been a year and no big issues, moving right along.  All of a sudden I get a call from a tenant saying there is a major leak.  I go over to check...

I have no idea why all the press about them makes their model sound so vague and mysterious. 

It's like these guys overpaid for a mystery hotel room on Hotwire and are now complaining to the front desk because they think they should be at the Four Seasons hotel and not the Howard Johnson's room they paid for

""Hi guy I've never met and whose phone number I've mysteriously acquired, I notice your house looks god, awfully dreadful!

A few months into the process her lawyers car “mysteriously burst into flames” with all of their records in it and the clients got scared and just walked away.