There may or may not be real property assets.There are asset-less estates occasionally opened in order to facility a wrongful death matter. 

If the sales department has a Customer Service Person, they might make an occasional arrangement.

There are occasionally lenders that don't require escrow, but one of the provisions of the loan is normally to keep taxes and insurance paid.   

They pop on MLS occasionally but most are found off MLS and this can take some effort.  

Occasionally other auctioneers will do a property as part of an estate. 

I occasionally come across some REO properties that had high tax appraised value in the previous years.

Mostly buy and hold but I do like occasional flips.

I don't know if it has anything to do with your crash, but...On the forum the past few days I occasionally will open one or two topics that are formatted wrong...the threads do not start until below the left side nav bar.

GAREIA has a class occasionally.

$35k is extremely rare for a condo, but I do see them occasional if they are small and apartment style.