You're actually more likely to foreclose on properties that are vacant, so if your goal is to produce interest income, I would recommend that you focus on occupied properties that you expect will be redeemed by the owners/bank.Now if you're talking about wanting to avoid evictions, that's a different story.To answer your question about mortgage companies paying the delinquent property taxes on behalf of the owners:  if the borrower is underwater on their mortgage and not making payments, they bank may decide to walk away rather than throw good money after bad.    

she sent me a letter telling me that if I don't pay her the $13K in two weeks, she will file to send me to court. 

I would also recommend that you factor in the following: NOI, ROI,  Cap Rate and Cash on Cash ReturnI would recommend that you download the Buy and Hold Evaluate Spreadsheet from BP files and then punch  in the numbers on all those properties so you can do a side by side comparison............remember this is the initial analysis based on pro forma which will most likely change once they have given you the actual.

For example, you can buy a note on a property in Florida (or any other state) that performs and produces more stable and higher income than you may get on a rental property in any of the locations you pitched.

I have done fix/flip projects and found that the time and energy I spent produces WAY more profit in just land.And easy to buy very inexpensive unwanted land.

We will be filing unlawful detainer for the tenant but we want this friend of his to get out of our property.Thanks for all your kelp in advance. 

I presume this means we would start negotiating there.This produces a highest potential monthly income of $4765.00. 

Better yet talk to a top producing realtor and ask what they like to see what they don't like to see when they bring buyers through

So, when you tenant does and pays for maintenance, you're not filing a proper tax return, either you're not accounting for it properly or you're filing a false tax return claiming expenses and depreciation you did not pay for!

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