Enjoy & God bless u with your endeavors.

or buy the Vendee's position and attempt to clear title.

So you have to understand the foreclosed person's mindset for this particular house before attempting to make that assumption.

Why would they be willing to let you tie up the property and attempt to sell the contract?

Lost income due to attempt at change in career.  

In an attempt to find houses to buy/flip I've come across some potential opportunities that I don't want to discard.  

I've seen these attempts, and simply ignored  them.

While we will visit the area on a house-hunting trip (tentatively slated for May 7-9), we've been limited to a long-distance search thus far (we currently reside in Pennsylvania); we've been using Zillow, Craig's List & Ebby's websites (attempted to use Dallas Morning News website with poor results), but I get a sense that there must be better resources to use.Our intent in posting is to seek recommendations about better resources to use in locating a quality rental property (including real estate professionals that anyone may recommend) in the North Dallas area and, if we're fortunate, perhaps connect with a landlord who has rental properties available in this specific area. 

Brandon TurnerJosh Bakhshi My short term goals are building a network, team, and attempting a deal with 45 days.

I spoke with him a couple years ago and walked away understanding that he indeed is engaging in securities trades.There is lesson here for note newbies - these partials you attempt to play with can be viewed as securities.