Wholesaling is illegal in Oklahoma, Illinois, and Philadelphia without a license.Maryland is trying to make wholesaling without a license illegal.None of these laws are being enforced.

@Nikita Ivanov in most instances when a home is sold the new buyer inherits the tenant and the terms of their tenancy, a sale doesn't void the terms of the tenancy unless that is specifically spelled out in the current lease (even if this clause exists its very hard to enforce).

Hire a property manager to take care of enforcement for you.

Its also very open to interpretation by the local judges and I believe that if they see that that the person can pay but isn't they can enforce? 

Municipality liens (you can order the lien search for $250 or you can go with a title company  - FYI Tax-Deeds in MDC have their title reports in the auction listing - so you can view all the liens/mortgages on the property at that time).You can search the majority of the lien records online for free using the Clerk of Court - its a pain sometimes due to the glitchy nature of the search engine so you have to spend around 1-3 hours looking through each person who was originally on the title and run their name through code enforcement and liens (you can input the property address but sometimes the liens don't show up so I usually run through all the previous owners.FPL -  isn't really a lien but they sometimes "charge" a deposit for tenants who never their previous bills - Confirm how much your deposit will be using the "starting new service" tool and select yourself as a renter.Water and Sewer (you'll have to come up with a situation to "trick" them into stating if there is any un-paid balance on the property - "Hey I just bought this property and I wanted to setup my water" or "Hey I'm a current renter of this property and I would like to setup water" - they may or may not disclose if there is a un-paid balance on the property just depends who you get (you can alternativly file the paperwork for a lien search but it makes no sense to do so if you're going to pay for a title search). 2.

They could willingly sign that lease - and I'll still be arrested for battery for enforcing it.

But Even EPA regs are implemented and enforced at the state level.  

As stated the COC may not be able to directly enforce the Service Member to pay a just owed debt, they can however strongly encourage them to do the right thing .

:I had taken possession of a little house post eviction when 24 hours later I got a call from city code enforcement that I'd been cited for harboring between 40-80 cats and must immediately correct the problem.

Proper identification of tenants isalso needed if you want any chance of having local code enforcement write tickets against the tenant and not the owner.5.