These include pre-foreclosure sellers, who are listed publicly on the notice of default list available through a courthouse or title company; abandoned property owners; landlords, lists of whom may be available from the section 8 housing authority, and owners with listings that have expired.One method of gathering leads for motivated sellers is by farming.

They ended up not postponing the auction and it went to trustee sale anyways....very disappointing but what can ya do.If you have authorization from the seller then I would recommend contacting the bank directly.

According to Richard Duncan (the author of that book I mentioned), Japan is never going to be back up, 'cause the same Japanese organizations are outsourcing their Car manufacturing to China (one example) already and so are some of their other industry related operations...Your take on Deflation and Depression is something I support Totally.

Check out Real Estate and The Web forum near the bottom of the Forum Index.

Anyway I know the tech world and web design world, and am ecstatic that I have found a community to assist me in developing my RE knowledge to better help my clients.

At least for the SFRs I invest in, I find the Zillow Rent Estimate to be fairly accurate as well.The Padmapper web site that scrapes rental ads on CL is also something to look at.

Also, if you work with one of those companies and they are charging you up front fees to purchase every time and excessive loan fees's, they are taking advantage of you.

There is a list of web based software in the resources section.

I got my postcards from office depot and I used all the free advertising from the web I could such as craiglist.

If you’ve ever placed a sponsored Ad on Facebook, you may have noticed a lot of clicks on the Ads but very few clicks to your web page and quite possibly zero sales or conversions.