https://www.waynecountylandrecords.com/recorder/web/ so go here, create an account and search by the address of the property you are interested in.

You present them your receipt from the motel which shows you were a resident and you obtain your driver's license, and a state identification card.You then apply for an address in Sioux Falls and receive a post box, a telephone number and your physical address.

I will address both topics starting with buying good investment properties.Good PropertiesYes, we find them every day.

If it is a really good deal, is there anybody you trust to be there that you can communicate with over the phone everyday.

I have located the addresses of the owners (absentee) and want to send out letters.

Let the dilettantes go their way looking for the easy, safe, problem-free bucks in real estate, as if there were such things.Build your team as you go, learn to trust their strengths and work around their weaknesses.I really like the idea of doing a videocall with your agent holding a camera (FaceTime) as you walk through a property.

Do not be too quick to trust.

@Greg, Probably judicial foreclosure on deed of trust to secure assumption (usually of the spouse that got the house in the divorce gives the other a lien to ensure the mortgage gets paid). 

C class unit with some deferred maintenance that will have to be addressed on a ten year time line.

An Agent could work both sides , just beware of their disclosure obligation and do not fully trust any Agent.