Not enough info.

So after closing I was finally able to get the contact info for the seller and the tenant and she told me she has not given any notice to them except that she texted my info to them when I asked her to notify the tenants about the sale & if she gave them the 30 day notice.  

Sorry best I can do given the general info. 

I would still use this website: https://adtech.dailyjournal.com/legalAds/ to research new probate files at this courthouse in LA county: http://www.lacourt.org/courthouse/info/laAnd to research new probate files in Orange county I would go to this courthouse:http://www.occourts.org/index.htmlFor marketing I would focus and mail to PR's that live outside of CA (GA, N.J., WY, FL, TX, etc.,) as they would be more motivated to sell.To be honest it wouldn't take 1 month to close a deal.But I have enough on my plate here in N.

I'm just getting started in REI, trying to take in as much info as I can.

Reach out to connect to him or PM me and I'll pass his contact info along to you. 

I need more info and leverage.  

Timeline:Property 1 Purchased Jun 2016: Purchased for 5% down @ 255k, refinanced about a year later at @ 325k with some minor renovations completed, and got a HELOC Oct 2017 for 20k and had 20% equity in the property vs 5% when I had purchased Property 2: - Purchased in February 2018 for 192k and had it reappraised in March/April for $222,500 - This was super low based on comps and I asked for a review based on the brokers opinion of value as well and he said he could not review it- After this the lender informed me that he could not even do the refinance with the appraisal because my DTI was off- He recommended waiting a year or so until the rents from the new property show up on my tax return and to pay off some debt for the ratios to start working in my favorMy realtor provided me some provide private lending info who were able to offer NO refinance on property #2 but they could do a mortgage on a new property we were looking at for 20% down, & 10% interest.I did not have 20% ready to go as I was banking on the refinance for at least a portion of the funds and had to turn down the offer.Curious if anyone else has encountered these roadblocks and If I need to wait or if there is something I can do. 

As far as figuring out operating expenses, if you cannot get a good sense on what the operating costs are going to be from the info provided from the seller, it wouldn't hurt to start talking to some local property managers.

So, he has helped me with some RE investing info.