If you cant do it yourself you can hire a skip trace, but there are no guarantees on that obviously.

You don’t eat your golden goose eggs for breakfast

Some people skip right to the auction, bid, and end up with a property that has liens they didn't plan on, and it ends up being a big loser in the profit department because of it.  

I would highly recommend checking out John Fisher's breakfast - they meet once a month at 7am on Saturday's and I've met some really great connections there!

Boarders indicates that you are running a sort of bed and breakfast which would be a commercial operation.

I cook a nice breakfast, offer them a ride downtown for the football game, and they have their own bathroom to use, so its not particularly awkward in that regard.  

That caused the big skip when the last bid came in, because it had to be large enough to beat the maximum bid of the other bidder.

From interacting with these folks, the majority of those I talked to told me that they did not drop their price because they could not drop their price.....not enough equity.A price drop, barring some creative financing, would have them paying someone to buy their house, and I have yet to meet anyone THAT motivated.As far as appending email and phone, I've noticed just recently a couple of new folks around the site who are pitching phone lists and skip tracing services, like Tony Battle and Ethan Summers.

Including high end skip trace tools.

Many of colleagues go into teaching at this point; I'm laying the groundwork for a late-in-life career in REI.)Lately I've been wondering: should I skip the SFR rental part of the plan?