In Oregon for instance one city ban's nightly rentals  No Air BnB  you must have a permit to do this and they only give out a small hand full.This also illustrates clearly that when you buy rentals that are going to be section 8 your property is what it is and will never really go anywhere as for good bad or indifferent you are on the face lower the perception and reality of the area... so when you look at what's happened in the last 20 years were rental business has exploded into mom and pops you have whole sections of towns and cities that will go through and have gone through exactly what this article describes.The only time this reverses is if like this property its a big complex and the owners have the right to do this... or if its SFR in an area of a city that is regentrifing @Ben Leybovich  watching the move Thomas Crown Affair when I was on the stair master and the lead female ( Rene Russo) character was born and raised in Lima Ohio... how random is that.

Its public record, and is available on your county’s website for Pete’s sake.We love showing our potential buyers our past deals, because they're always frickin' awesome.Question # 2“If this house is such a good deal why don’t you flip it yourself?”

Located on a quiet all-townhouse street, yet within a few minute's walk of public transportation, shopping, parks and nightlife.

I will say that experience has definitely made me more perceptive and acute to things and makes my radar go up quicker when I am involved in helping people.

You can check public records to see what mortgage $$ the Seller has taken out, so you can see if they might need that $200K to sell and pay their closing costs.  

not sure that gives you a leg up ... this is usually the first step towards a foreclosure.So unless you can buy the paper.. or find a semi private lender who is hiring these folks and may sell paper... other wise it will be a short matter of time when its all public record

I'm trying to scrap the entire MLS of my local area's public MLS, which uses a FlexMLS Javascript site.  

The public really looks at and stack ranks agents based on total quantity of reviews. 

I'm digging around on the public records site searching 'lis pendens'. 

Perhaps an easy solution would be to set up a small picnic area out of the public line of sight.