The trick is finding a truly motivated seller. 

I'm sure other people have other tricks and tips.

The trick is that is is burned down and in the process of being fully rebuilt by the HOA.

Every book I've read says the trick lies in "finding" good deals. 

The trick in my opinion is to get rid of you as the middleman for performing these tasks and use a service like cozy.co where the applicant enters all their information and then you get the report and the background without knowing anything. 

Another trick is to search on whitepages, they may show other names that's associated with that address.

Ok BP family so this is a real trick or treat situation just time for Halloween I guess!

In my area there are some hard money lenders who do 100% loans, but they also want to qualify the buyer like a bank would, loan application, credit checks, etc....As for finding private money lenders, the age old trick is to pull public records of privately held mortgages in your area that have lent in the last 6 months.  

The contract assignability is the key, being able to assign your right to buy to someone else, that's the trick

They teach you how to pass the test by using tricks, word phrases, redundancies, rhymes, etc.