The Realtors that do this for me know (1) that I will CLOSE the deal, (2) will refer other investors, and (3) will give them the information they need when they need it.

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Are you referring to start-up costs or operating costs?

Do you know if there is a way to cross reference indexes?

How you structure the deal would be referring to how you "vest the offer".

Refer to your contract.

My assumption, is that that entailed finding a name in the obituaries, perhaps researching their name in whitepages.com (to find an address to cross-reference), and matching them up with a record for a property in the county property record search tool that I referenced earlier in this thread.Am I right?

No one knows what I'm referring to?

The kicker to me is that they don't have a HOA or any governing body that meets regularly from what I can tell.

Most of these houses a previous poster referred to were likely repaired without permits.