It would be great to connect with local, provincial, and nationwide investors and members of the real estate community!

Your lender is only concerned with recouping the amount of your outstanding loan and should allow you to decrease the limit of earthquake insurance each year as you pay down the principal on your loans.Insurance seems like an unnecessary expense until you need it.

The deadline for the original property owner to redeem / pay outstanding property tax lien is approaching within the next 4 months.

This is an outstanding resource.  

I know quite a few wholesalers who have double-closed and are double-closing successfully on HUD homes nationwide.

There are also companies that will do it for a fee in CT (indeed, nationwide, for that matter) that range for between $50 and $500/year. 

Depending on how involved in the process you want to be, you can also contact local mortgage lenders to work with the client to pay off any outstanding debt they may have that could stand in the way of their attaining the mortgage.

I would check with local banks not he big nation wide types and ask to speak to a someone in the "commercial loans" dept. 

They both represent lots of investors and do outstanding work.  

There are only handful of nationwide lenders offering such loans, I've assembled the list over the years for my clients which might be helpful to you as well, you can find it here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/2810/50272-lis...Hope this helps.