I’ve been really curious about real estate for the past 5 years and that curiosity primarily comes from my involvement in Habitat for Humanity.

@John Moon  I can relate to your mixed feelings; however, the issue of sellers asking for ridiculous prices for their buildings is never going to go away, as this is intrinsic to human nature. 

If you go to the humanes society or local dog pound?

Print some business cards and tell everyone humanly possible ?

For some reason, it's just human nature for some people to lie.

If anyone knows any actual, real human being private lenders who want to put their money with winners, then I'd appreciate an intro.  

It should really be a basic human right to be able to pull your own permits anyway especially if the property is in your own name.

There are many unknowns out their to consider... forgeries on deeds, wills or other legal docs, maybe an X spouse disappeared and never signed off and now they are back, there could have been human errors on recording docs, missing heirs that all of sudden appear or maybe a seller at some point in the line ownership wasn't really of sound mind to sell and the list goes on...

The choose not to delve into the realm of non-traditional assets because of the specialty services required that are much more human-intensive than exchange facilitated trading.  

We have a couple special guests speaking tonight from Habitat for Humanity and InsideOut Renovations.