.,  My advice would be to put yourself in the buyer's shoes and mentally walk in the house for the first time so you can visualize their reaction.  

If the house is vacant why would any right minded investor show up and think mhmm the house is vacant and worth less than it will cost i think ill just charge higher rent even though there is none there to begin with...LETS JUST SAY there is a investor out there that has the right idea and could figure out some miraculous way to cash flow the place and convince the owner to take the loss and walk away empty handed...

hi dilyn. welcome to BP and to the real estate world. when i first got started, i wanted to read every book i could, go to every seminar i could attend,   and take  every class i could find. i learned early on that most of these " schools" are shams. if you can walk away from a seminar with more knowledge that you walked in with, great. learn everything you can from every source possible, but it shouldn't cost you a bundle of money paid to a guy who claims to be " making it rich in real estate". lets face it, if he were getting rich by flipping houses, why is he teaching and not doing??

There are different benefits to either one both can be poison if you don't have adequate representation.That said if the homeowner did a chp 7 didn't reaffirm his debt he can/could of walked away without any ramifications.

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Did you use one of the programs mentioned on BP or did your attorney draw up the documents and walk you through the process?

When someone walks in the door. 

You want to waste $200 and three days, get some fliers printed up for cheap and walk the neighborhoods you are interested in and try to pick up some deals.I can't stand these people. 

Have time to walk neighborhoods and put out flyers / door hangers? 

She was actually having a hard time even being in the house and had to have her fiancée walk me through.