Google Mojave County AZ Real Estate Investors Group for more info.

And, in some areas (like mine) you can look up on your county's Assessors Office website and see how much the property was purchased for and what the lien amounts are (this can often give you an idea). 2.)

Make sure you screen your tenants real well - as it is harder than re-enforced concrete to evict someone in Cook County.

The title company takes the cash from the buyer, pays off the original seller, pays off others with their hand out (county, etc.), keeps a little, and drops the rest in your lap.

CRIME is a big one.The percentage of non-violent to violent infractions and if crime is increasing or decreasing in the immediate area.Intermodal transportation study is another and the future land use map.This will give you an idea of where they are today and what they have planned for the area in the future and how the city and county will be allocating their resources to develop certain areas.Much more items than this but it's been a long day and my brain is out of fuel........ :)

County shorts sales since February and have a few set to close this month.

In turn (if it's at all legal for me to assume a modified loan, I will rent it out at the rates listed above.Regarding the back taxes the bank has paid her back taxes I believe 2 years ago as the home was in risk of going to "tax sale" (I've already verified this on the Los Angeles County Property Assessor website).

The county in which I live is OVERRUN (literally) with vacant and neglected properties.

Last two months an LLC called AH4R bought 20-35 properties at the courthouse steps in my county.

I pull my absentee owner list from the county tax records here in New Jersey.