@Luke Masaschi, while the pathway to easing the ADU conversion process is underway in NY, I believe CA is leading the pack.That said, NY law requires a minimum ceiling height of 7 ft. and requires 2ft to be above street level.

I’d prefer cash buyers for the ease of the closing, and peace of mind to sellers.

Tedious work.I was also thinking of rod iron and screw tensioners.... thank you!

@Andrew HerrigI used Jerry Puckett for his expertise, experience and ease of compiling a viable list. 

If they are motivated they will want you to buy it.... and if they want you to buy it they will attempt to ease your concerns that there is a major hidden issue by blurting out the motivation....

It is maintained by the United States Postal Service and access to it is sold to firms that engage in direct mail; use of NCOA is required in order to obtain bulk mail rates, as it minimizes the number of misaddresses and eases the job of the postal service."

We also investigated long term rental options, but we decided to have our properties closer to us for ease of management and also our better knowledge of our local market.

List 2 was "Vacant houses with 70% equity or more in zip code area's where the investors were buying (I used ListSource to find where cash buyers had purchased in the previous 6 months and created a graph in excel for ease of reference).

EMD or not.I felt more at ease by telling people in pre-foreclosure their options on how to get out of it with as less pain as possible.

The economy is humming along, jobs hit an all-time high in December with over 300K new jobs created in one month, lending standards are back to normal and show no signs of easing, housing prices are leveling off due to more inventory starting to grow, new construction still has a way to go but is definitely showing signs of life again, buyers are out in force and wages are starting to increase again after 12+ years of stagnant and dropping wages.