I love management (I am the Administrator for a local healthcare business) and love entrepreneurship.

You'll get as good of information out of your sources (them and their database) as you ask.  

Also, don't lessees usually pay a one-time administrative fee of sorts to have the first right of refusal? 

Have you been in contact with anyone from the veterans administration?

Dan,Insurers voluntarily contribute claim info to an independent central database.  

If there is an administrator or executor, look to reach out to that person t see if they would want to sell the property before it goes to auction.

So I would say, have a clear idea of what you want to achieve with your purchase, find a data base of agents (Zillow worked for me back then).

Can anyone shed some light on what the Biden Administration is proposing and how this would affect the landlord/tenant relationship, specifically in Texas. 

A buddy of mine had this same problem when he started getting back into real estate three or so years ago, so we created Best Skip Tracer together to fix it.Your problem is why we're one of the only if not the sole company to have real people hand-scrub our lists, instead of just checking them against a data base. 

SBA 7(a) Loan: The SBA (Small Business Administration) provides loans to small businesses, including construction projects.