So I went to the PVA office and contacted the owner, fed up with renters and two failed "contract for deed" sales, he's just been letting it sit.

http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/hard-money-example.html And Caitlyn, I sometimes post in a thread and don't track it or ever go back.

I don't know if there is a way to get around the agent (unless I can track down the owner) until after the sale...or at sale.

I am a licensed affiliate broker and my company has 10 offices in this area to make it convienent for both clients and customers.

They are nice upper scale units typically occupied by solid middle-class white-collar tenants (office workers).

I also told them at application what I expected, and how the eviction process worked: Rent is "due on the first, LATE ON THE SECOND, on the third, or at the latest the 5th, their 3 DAY LETTER, would be "nailed and mailed", on the 4th day I would be at the JPs office to file a WRIT OF FORCIBLE DETAINER, and that once I had taken that step THERE WAS NO GOING BACK.It must have worked, between 1980 (converted my first house in Houston to a rental) and 1998 (sold and seller financed my last rental in Houston, I only got to the filing stage 3 times and only had ONE TENANT SHOW UP IN COURT to contest.

The following are possible answers with some possible conditions:1.Out of town owner – unfamiliar with current market conditions2.Incompetent to negotiate – power of attorney3.Passed away/executor of estate – quick sale, legal authority4.Real estate broker or organized selling entity – it may be overpriced.5.Bank officer or foreclosure agency personnel dept. – lower your offer6.Sophisticated lease optioning reseller/investor – big bad wolf!

Just locate your local assessors office (most are online now), and you should be able to lookup the owner of properties by their address.

They would be happy with a large garage/workshop plus a secluded den or office to carry on with business or to retreat to the solitude of a “cave.”

A few months ago I got a call from the agent I work with asking me to look at a place that her office had just listed.