I met a buy & hold investor the other day and I'm challenging myself to find him a good deal and get myself started with wholesaling, but I first need to be aware of methods for sifting through foreclosure deals to find ones that investors will actually buy.I need clean titles!

You are going to want it cleaned and filters changed in order to help get rid of the smoke smell.You are going to want to wash every surface that you can get your hands on -- walls, windows, fixtures, painting may be easier depending on how bad it was.

There are several recommended on this site.

If you ran the criminal history on husband and wife applicants and the wife came back clean but the husband showed to have multiple prior felony fraud convictions or violent assault convictions, would you still rent to them because the wife was clean?

They have been life changing for us and I am sure for most of the active members on this site.

The home really does not look that bad on the inside or outside and I feel like it has good value (i.e. 3 bedrooms, hardwood floors, clean walls, large parking area).

I mean i even had my guys ready to go in the house to do the lawn and clean up a bit.

But, what if there is more clean-up and repairs needed than you anticipated and the unit has to stay vacant for a full month? 

Best of luck to you and good to see other people from Fargo, ND gracing this site.

However, if they wanted to justify it, I'm sure the justification is that renters cause more problems than owners; renters tend to live then shorter periods of time and there are expenses when someone moves in/out such as extra trash pick-ups, programming them into an entry system, cleaning costs as the move in/out can be messy around the building, light damage to the building, scheduling of the freight elevator, cost of providing additional notices as now the tenant and owner need to receive copies, etc.