Over the last few years I have mainly flipped homes through the MLS and auctions, but things seem to be drying up there.

If you want to PM me the address, I can tell where the foreclosure cases stand, and if they are indeed close to any auctions.

Foreclosure auction they are still responsible for all past dues, interest and attorney fees.  

I arrived to the home and showed my check to auction personnel and there was only ONE other bidder.

I bought a house in a foreclosure auction in New Mexico on May 27th.  

Many other states have very similar definitions of RE activity that requires a license.4735.01(A) "Real estate broker" includes any person, partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation, foreign or domestic, who for another, whether pursuant to a power of attorney or otherwise, and who for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, or with the intention, or in the expectation, or upon the promise of receiving or collecting a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration does any of the following:(1) Sells, exchanges, purchases, rents, or leases, or negotiates the sale, exchange, purchase, rental, or leasing of any real estate;(2) Offers, attempts, or agrees to negotiate the sale, exchange, purchase, rental, or leasing of any real estate;(3) Lists, or offers, attempts, or agrees to list, or auctions, or offers, attempts, or agrees to auction, any real estate;(4) Buys or offers to buy, sells or offers to sell, or otherwise deals in options on real estate;(5) Operates, manages, or rents, or offers or attempts to operate, manage, or rent, other than as custodian, caretaker, or janitor, any building or portions of buildings to the public as tenants;(6) Advertises or holds self out as engaged in the business of selling, exchanging, purchasing, renting, or leasing real estate;(7) Directs or assists in the procuring of prospects or the negotiation of any transaction, other than mortgage financing, which does or is calculated to result in the sale, exchange, leasing, or renting of any real estate;(8) Is engaged in the business of charging an advance fee or contracting for collection of a fee in connection with any contract whereby the broker undertakes primarily to promote the sale, exchange, purchase, rental, or leasing of real estate through its listing in a publication issued primarily for such purpose, or for referral of information concerning such real estate to brokers, or both, except that this division does not apply to a publisher of listings or compilations of sales of real estate by their owners;(9) Collects rental information for purposes of referring prospective tenants to rental units or locations of such units and charges the prospective tenants a fee.

I have no doubt you'll be succesful if you keep up all of the research, diligence, and follow-through.Also, not sure what the ststus of REOs and auctions is in your area, but in addition to the MLS I would check out the following:hubzu.comauction.comhomesteps.comhomepath.comhudhomestore.comhomesearch.comrealtor.com (sometimes finds things my agents MLS doesn't)zillow.com (also sometimes finds things my realtors MLS doesn't)and of course craigslist.orgI use a program a browser plug-in called "morning coffee" to launch each of these sites results page for my target area in a new window, every day, to see if anything is new. 

Sometimes they will misspell the mortgagee's name, and you don't find it searching by the correct spelling,  it's rare, but I've seen it, and auction bidders got a nasty surprise.  

Doe anyone out there have any experience buying at trustee auctions?

They're paid up to January 2014 and the property is scheduled to go to auction in late July.