Property management, inspector/contractor to walk through prospective properties, realtor obviously.

The supposed heirs walked away, I walked away, and 3 years later I bought it at the property tax sale.

If you are in a county which doesn't pre-publish min bids, you will waste massive amounts of time going to auctions where nothing is available to you.But if you have a range of types of properties you want and are willing to bid on anything that fits your criteria, my recommendation is to go to a county which publishes minimum bids in advance.

I walked through that subdivision knocking on doors, I only introduced myself explaining my company's change and lower costs asking for appointments.

If you are licensed, you can just call the number on the sign and see if it's available for showing and "just walk in."

. :)Mark, I agree with much of what you're saying, but I'm not keen on birddogging, depends on how it's done and state laws.Michael, I agree that doing an option and then assigning it can be a good first deal, but you can't walk out not knowing anything and get that closed without knowing other issues. :)

Even with flipping if you use hard money the lender will want skin in the game ( money down and points ) to do the loan.The reasoning is if the rehab gets tough the HML wants it to be painful for you to walk versus just handing it back to them.A good contact for flips is J Scott on here.

If you want, give us the numbers and we can take a look.Sounds like they want to downsize into a property that better fits their needs.

I didn't really feel this was ethical, nor something that fits in with my strategy, but there are people pursuing this setup.

When you walk up to a slot machine and make your bet, your most likely result is that you will lose that bet.