There are homeowners that will always need to offload property due to job loss, divorce, death in the family, bankruptcy, etc.

Two things are certain death and taxes.

I have used them for a few RE transactions and they were easy to deal with and didn't try to "lawyer-speak" me to death.

I'd even take it further by assuming that offering a low ball right off the bat was an automatic death sentence for the deal, and that I could've had more negotiating power after some due diligence, not before.

I have educated myself to death and i really want to get started.

Death, divorce, disinterest, default, drug-use, etc.  

The way they view death in battle as respectable.  

Question #5 - If the Will designates the party that gets the property upon the death of the Decedent, does that prevent the property from being included in the probate proceedings?

Distressed means they're not just in physical repairs or updating, but it could be their title is distressed because it's going through the death of the previous owner or it could be it's going through a divorce.  

Vacant properties (drive for dollars)12. absentee owners 3-5 years owned (most landlords sale after the first 2 years, and with prices climbing its a perfect list)13. inherited properties: some states do not require heirs to go through probate if the will was recorded prior to death. these properties are sold through under a special deed14.