What is the most effective way to find the most up to date contact info? 

This also is applicable to the sale of the property and satisfies our 10% down required from our lender (SBA 504 loan -- good for owner-occupied small businesses, which we are and is a whole other topic on a different strategy to acquire commercial RE).2) From our effective date, the closing date is set for 365 days.

OR WA CA very definitely and you must be a licensed foreclosure consultant in Oregon to deal with anyone in foreclosure I used to do a ton of this prior to the laws coming into effect in 08 ish.. lots of fraud lots of very bad actors in that arena.. and again you cant do anything that a good or competent agent can do. and in Oregon a licensed foreclosure consultant is a broker a lawyer or  MLO  . not a private citizen

Problem is, obviously, that you're limited in advertising and marketing the place effectively til the repairs and make-ready are complete, because until then you can't take good pictures or show the place to prospective tenants. 

It should be the result of a deep conversation with a tax professional to understand the pros, cons, and risks.If you have a mortgage on the property, I agree that it opens a lot of tricky side effects that you need to mitigate.

For me I don't want to wait by my phone and they definitely don't want to sit there waiting for me to say yes or no because time wasted is money wasted and again they will just charge you more on next job if they think you will make them call to approve a 50 dollar upcharge everytime.

People like him will not waste time with such things and you need to be on point with intent professionalism and a detailed outlined purposal with proof of funds to get him to bite .

Don't want to waste a lot of time with these, but at the same time would like to give some sort of response.Thanks,

I am always looking for the crystal ball play for my investors as the market is starting to shift and the need to buy and hold will become a more and more effective strategy and prefer to make my statements data driven not intuition. 

It is up to the user to know and understand the limitations of each so they can apply them effectively.