@David Blue Welcome.Buy-Fixup-Sell/Rent has the highest return for your efforts.

You already have some experience and with additional effort, will quickly climb the REI ladder to its pinnacle.

 :)  They, Todd and Tom, seem like genuine guys who care about the people in addition to being succesful.  

Honestly having dealt with hoarders, I'd focus my efforts elsewhere.

Or, on social media.3) Use a skiptracing service to determine if owner maybe living elsewhere in the area, a senior living facity or relocated out if the area, but still alive.4) Budget $1,000 for a private investigator to find your target owner and provide you the contact info. 5) If you aren't willing to risk the money for the search effort, then you definitely aren't ready  to attempt anything more risky like adverse possession. 

learn to be a good salesperson  ask a lot of  genuine questions about the property and their situation and you will learn exactly how to structure your offer. then let them know the value you can provide (as-is,quick,cash) and how you can get them what they ultimately want.

Theres a ton of research that goes into each property to make sure youre actually getting a deal and that your actually passing along a deal.Direct mail or putting out bandit signs and networking takes a huge amount of time, effort, dedication and expense.

You might be able to get a very low interest rate from Grandma but you want to be fair so that she sees it as worth her time and effort and is willing to lend to you again on the next one.  

I am a relatively new investor who has spent most of my efforts in out of state buy and hold investments.

Then you can consider whether it's worth making an offer, whether there's enough meat on the bone for another investor to be willing to pay you an assignment fee, and what kind of contingencies make sense to put in the contract.Finally, if the house is genuinely priced lower that market value, it will most likely sell above asking after a highest and best round - making the asking price irrelevant (other than to serve its purpose of attracting more bidders), unfortunately.