I'm printing off business cards to give to potential sellers.

Plus it's common knowledge that the local governments are extremely corrupt. 

The person provided me the information (gave me a print out) for the two properties but I felt after I asked for the 2nd property that if I was going to ask for 5 or 10 properties that was going to be a different story.I was curious what others actually find when they try to look up absentee owners either online or at the tax ofice.

Kevin, buying the second is an option as I and Rick mentioned.Your tactics in setting a high price have consequences with the junior holder, amounts owing are governed by law.

For all of 2013 I had  three pictures printed out on a piece of paper and taped on the wall next to my computer where I sat every day.  

I then went to their tax assessor's website, search for the names of the siblings and discovered their Power of Attorney and printed it out!

Designing my own cards, having them printed from Ebay.

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My old county use to print a new paper for defaulted property taxes.

Yes, this gets more involved, but making an investor a member can be a big plus avoiding lending issues and having to file liens when accounting practices can govern capital contributions to a specific deal.The Series LLC is not available in all states, there are advantages as to liability inside the entity and between partners, but it can also have other issues requiring all members execute notes, assignments and contingent liabilities when the interests of others are significant to the LLC, a member's cell may be able to conduct its own business and that member may be required to be subsidized in some cases.Don't forget in the replacement of members to include the refusal to act in a given time period from notice, it's a real pain when the guy just won't act but isn't dead or incapacitated.