Up until the trustee sale (foreclosure auction), the home is still owned and fully controlled by the home owner.I’m assuming you’re going to be looking at off-market properties (since loan status isn’t something they advertise on the MLS so you likely wouldn’t even know if it was in default if it’s a listed property).So, in that case, you’d just negotiate a purchase agreement with the home owner and then take the contract to your local escrow/title company to open escrow. 

Would love to talk. 

Also though, the way these people talk, you think they were making millions in real estate.

Planning to do on-market deals, talk to real estate agents.Don't really know how the contracts work, where to get them, or what to put on them.

@Wade Wisner, LOL you could easily have been one of my clients I used to take out on our sailboat in the keys to talk 1031 and strategy!! 

An example would be Rockaway Beach Oregon, a consistent contender on many top ten lists for top value vacation rental investment cities.

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with Propwire and your results compares to other list pulling sites?

I would reach out Erin Quinn or if you need other names we have a full Resource list in our Due diligence section of our Website.

Have you listed the unit as furnished to see your prospect?

Ultimately it's all guesses, and if they have a listing agent, being able to use this will be limited, part of the whole point of having representation is to blunt such efforts.