One tenant had a $13,000 "Sports Court" built. 

Rick Lucette would hope the declaration states somewhere that no single owner or entity can own more than 10 or 20% common interest.

How do you find the important information from the court house and if they had real estate. 

I have declared this year as the year of action and have soaked up a great deal of information from the forums and podcasts.

I keep telling her to sell out and just do something triple net and forget about it to relax in her golden years.She gets mad in court because the judge always gives the deadbeat tenants another 3 to 4 weeks to get out.

It truly is a “Kind Deed”, to do this, but once you do it, it changes the lease agreement and the courts can say to you from this point forward, that you did it once, and therefore, the poor tenant can’t understand why you can’t make allowance again when they fall into financial troubles in the future.  

She also explained that her daughter quit her job permanently on like the day after I verified employment in order to go to court and stuff for the kids and so now its like 3 adults and 3 kids suddenly living up there, none of them working.  

I meant they are most likely purchasing at the court house steps during the foreclosure process. 

Assuming the seller accepts, then the bank will decide if they like your offer.But you need a cooperative seller / borrower in short sales - doesn't sound like this one is sufficiently cooperative.Thanks Steve I'll check into that at the court house records.

While most contracts/regulations require buyer and seller to sign off canceling a contract and returning EM, most contracts are declared null and void upon the subject property being foreclosed.