Vacant properties also are targets for vandals and squatters, and often require special higher rate insurance.The program with this arrangement is agents lose the incentive to actually show there property and present offers.

2% is pretty much my target for my Detroit properties.

My target counties are all in NC and have online tax lookup services.  

If you use lines like "JOINT VENTURE" or "LEASE OPTION" the majority of your target market won't have a clue what you are talking about. 

Not just academically, but because the public schools were so brain dead when it comes to common sense and they were deeply into "social justice".

I am currently in the process of learning seo, but I know that it will take a long time to get at the top of the markets I am targeting (separate landing pages for albany, utica, syracuse, rochester, binghamton, buffalo). 

Also determine the max bid for each target property and never step over it.

Call the chamber ask about new employers.Tip:  use indeed.com set radius to 5 mi, search for jobs in the target city, then other same sized cities, noting the the number of jobs in upper right.   

I'm not sure exactly if we'd want to target Annapolis in light of all the politics swirling around that situation...I'd be interested to discuss how you're working around those possible roadblocks.

It depends on if the loan is FHA, VA, USDA or conventional and if the guy you are buying from went through escrow or just did a "kitchen table closing", if the property was in foreclosure or late on payments in the last 6 years (right, you're in Washington State - where socialism went when it died in the Soviet Union) (I'm from Seattle, by the way ;-), how the underlying loan payments are being made, the status of the person on the underlying note, you have to determine who is going to pay the excise tax on the transfer and of course you need to see the terms on the Lease to Own, etc.But, yes, it should be able to be done.