@Michael Quarles That sounds like quite the process...and some expensive equipment!

Illinois Equipment Fair Dealership Law3.

Account Closed regarding classifying them as equipment. 

Check out:http://www.opb.org/news/widget/aftershock-find-you...This means it will be next to impossible to bring in the equipment necessary to begin rescue and recovery efforts and materials.  

However, as the investor left holding the property, make sure you are well equipped to deal with the ups and downs too.  

If someone else is better equipped to handle the flip or something legitimate is found out about the property (cloudy title, mineral rights gone, easement through pool).

I once ran a restaurant in Malibu which had been in business for 25+ years and often an older piece of refrigeration or cooking equipment would have the Model info rubbed away over time from scrapping against the wall. 

@Clay Warinner - What Voicemail Drop Services have you seen which are equipped with a built in DNC list free of charge? 

If you do buy those properties, do you keep the current equipment or do you have a strategy to make it better?

My profession is a heavy equipment operator in excavation.