Nobody wants their name to appear in public records for brokering without a license.

The Health Officer does enforce it fairly rigorously.  

I am looking at a property in my area, and I would be interested in doing a lease option or seller financing, rather than a traditional loan.I found the owner, through public records, and I am wondering what the best protocol would be to go about asking him if he would be interested in my proposals.Do I start with the selling agent?

Pretty interesting read.Article starts on page 52:http://trendmag2.trendoffset.com/publication/?

-Elderly women passes away with a debt to nursing home and other related health bills liened against the property. ($250,000 debt/liens)-Home is valued at maybe $16,000.00 (fixer-upper)-County officials told executor that home will enter tax sale status at end of February if ($3000.00) property taxes are not paid and will then be sold at public tax sale in the fall.

Check the specific homes' tax payment, the neighborhood, other public records.Now, I spend time to run statistics of the MLS data to see what is a price range I can consider.

"For starters, the stocks must be in form of a private placement (not publicly traded).

I hired a public adjuster and he took over everything (and explained WTF was going on in the simplest of terms so my brain could understand) and he got us 150% more than the original offer.  

Besides the finishes available to the general public won't last as long as professional grade finishes.  

I do know it's hard to determine if a customer is legit by text especially now that I know there are investors from out of state that could very well be looking to hire us, but be very careful because this scam has shown up on my phone 3 times over the past week and they are all out of town or out of the states for treatment of one type or another and all the houses are publicly listed for sale in my service area.I have been very careful to ask several specific questions because I know there could be legit investors looking to hire us for their out of state investments, but after 3 very similar texts I am sure it is a scam so just be careful!