You can also look at properties that are about to expire off the MLS to find motivated sellers.  

If you really want to wholesale target Vacant properties, dealing with tenants in the home is extremely difficult especially when your buyers want to see the home, although there are ways around it the buyer could easily go around you (just wait for your contract to expire).

My lawyer said if I do not show that I could be fined and could not believe someone like him advised me on that without offering me the cost of the fine.Have an accountant and financial advisor that are real estate investors.Make sure your realtor has a good tenant screening service that checks identity, credit, housing court, criminal background, etc  Also check the real estate commission for your state or city and make sure realtors license is current and has not expired or been revoked.Put a recorder on your phone, turn it on when needed and download to your pc.

@Nancy Wang Hire an engineer to check all papers or approved plans. when the owner did a new con or large rehab, or second floor addition, in short a major rehab, then definitely have approved plans,it might have expired.

As a Real estate agent, I do a lot of cold calls and i'm familiar with expired listing, fsbo,and just classic cold calls..so I started to create a buyer database that might be my potentials buyers in the future.

Greetings everyonei recently purchased a duplex and i live one half and rent out the other half, recently my tenants lease have expired and they are currently on a M2M basis, after reviewing the old lease there are some issues i want to address but i haven't a clue as to where to start.The old lease written  by the previous owner doesn't address smoking,length of visitation time of guest and renters insurance.Currently im not planning on writing a lease till June, but in the mean time im guessing i should write an actually M2M agreement to have on file?

A) have your Realtor door knock expired duplexes from the last 24 months.

The winning bid amount was $110k and the comps were $170 so I figured it was low risk to hold it for a few months until the redemption expires and then deal with getting the occupants out.  

I bought the liens on two single family residences at tax sale, the redemption time will expire soon, (and knowing what I do about the owners), I should own both free and clear.

If it's state or federal tax liens, they would get wiped out after the right of redemption expires. 99 times out of 100, the foreclosing entity will pay the back taxes (property taxes) to avoid any issues with a potential tax sale down the road.