I've read that you can find leads on local tax assesors websites, probate and inherited properties accessible to the public at probate court offices, or work with an agent who has access to expired listings from MLS.

I grew up in Lapeer and an old mentor from my boy scout days is a great broker with an office downtown.

West coast we are still able to get em done in 30 days start to finish but boy I have a hard time having that happen in other states.. especially attorney driven closing states were the buyer and seller each hire their own attorney.. boy who ever though that one up.. the amount of back and forth between the attornies and mistakes and delays just cracks me up. compared to our title company clsoings everyone using one escrow officer to handle the transaction.

I have had the same experience with large/small banksLarge banks have their rules set and the loan officer can't budge.

I worked 10 years for the consulting arm of a big 4 accounting firm, helping Global Investment Banks, Insurance Firms, Multinational Asset Managers, and Hedge Funds improve their back office operations, specializing in implementing investment performance measurement systems.

A 4 story office building with a Chase branch does not seem like a bad investment to me. 

We offer a free investor class approximately every other Monday at our office in Bellevue at 6:30 p.m.

The only thing I can add is that if you're looking at a new area check with the police to see how bad the area and the subject property are.

How big the adjustment in the market is will be hard to calculate, and is dependant on whether any foreign money gets taken out of the market, which could cause a much bigger collapse.I remember hearing an investor, on one of the BP podcasts, talk about a conversation he had with a police officer in California, right before the crash in 2008.

everytime i had a problem i went to the front offic, told them and they have came out and gave me a work order every time, i just can't keep having these problems when were all sick from this, this apartment is not suitable for us to live in