If they ask more I tell them all my leads come from public records so it had to come from that.

If you mean the NOS, in as little as 21 days after publication.

I made great money for 15 more years.... and if I stayed in SFR residential I would be making 500k a year in the bay area with out really doing anything but working my referrals.. but I grew board of working with the public and went in to lending money which is still working with the public but mainly investors.. and of course as James will no doubt attest to there is a LOT o money in the US never know when some person calls you and it becomes a very nice gig.

No, probably not.In FL at least, you can only keep the deposit for the length of time that the property is unrented.However, you've clearly stated that you intend to sell the house (on a public forum no less), so there is no downtime between leases.

I'm not wired like the general public.  

It is still undervalued and has private capital investments surrounding it this last year (>$150 M), better access to public transit, parks, border more desirable neighborhoods and I believe to be safer but do not have the stats in front of me to confirm.  

If you follow the Public Trustee auctions, they are few and far between with stiff competition bidding them up (Only one foreclosure in Larimer County this week, 2 in Weld County).

I went to the county recorder and got the paperwork on the property, which happens to be in an extremely rural area and it shows that foreclosure was started, and then in Feb 2014 a Withdrawal of notice of foreclosure was sent to public trustee, and accepted by the public trustee in April 2014.Obviously the owners had no idea that the foreclosure stopped.

Liens are public records. 

I think for practical matters on the assigning of contracts.. one just needs to keep this out of the public space..