I know some Title companies still are doing them because there are legitimate people still wholesaling.

If there is a legitimate repair or an issue of health / safety, it will be addressed.

I can assure you they weren't reading books written by some guru, but were focusing on legitimate, high-level finance texts.

So then legitimate landlords will be competing with big banks who are too big to fail and who belong to the government!

I've never dealt with a property company that has gone out of there way to deny property claims when claims should be legitimately covered.

Not so common for real estate, but still a legitimate way to buy.

You need to understand the motivation of the seller to determine if the reason is legitimate and make sure the numbers work.

. , actually, there is no such thing as a legitimate side deal that the lender is not informed of.

@William Shaffer If a house is Vacant AND DISTRESSED there is a significant increase in motivation you just have to make sure you get some type of correspondence to the person in charge of making a decision on that house.If you have an LLC set up you can register with high level skip tracing services like TLO, Microbilt, or Accurint, and track the owners or decision holders down.Barring special circumstances, having 500 LEGITIMATE Vacant and Distressed properties per month, with the correct decision makers contact info, I believe you should be able to get a deal...following the 4-6 multi touch rule.

If they have a legitimate reason to move and are going to move anyway then I want them to move to one of my places.