Moral of my long story, I believe that it is essential to make your offers (at least for REO's) through the listing broker and not through another buyer's agent.

Essentially, one room, the family room, and mostly on an outside wall.

I do not know how you do that, but you essentially have no claim to the property as long as there is a mortgage note against it.

It's essential to have a plan of action no matter if your starting out in wholesaling or buy and hold.

Good airflow is essential to good performance and those expensive filters can be too restrictive for the AC.

There is also normally a judicial process on the books in most states which allows you to go to court and essentially get an order from the judge stating that the lien should have been release.

In this case, Tim had a deal handed to him, he spent no time working the deal, spent no money marketing the property and incurred essentially no risk in the transaction.

Assigning a contract involves getting a property under contract and essentially selling that contract to another buyer prior to closing.Flipping an entity involves actually closing on the property using a business entity (that you own) to take titke and then selling your interest in that entity to your end-buyer.

Lately, I play the youtube interviews in my headphones while I'm at work and have to say the information James provided in the first video has been essential as he is a year or so in front of me.

The reality of this is it's not surprising.The fact that they cleaned the inside living in it that long is a miracle.Usually people that have lived somewhere 10,15,20 years etc. accumulate a ton of junk.This is why when a bank forecloses and they offer the former owner 2,000 to leave in "broom swept condition" many times they seller will deny the cash for keys.The reason is most likely they are downsizing and the amount of money to rent trash bins and pay a truck to move their extra stuff combined with storage rental fees is a losing proposition.They come out way ahead by simply leaving all the trash there and sell off the rest and taking the leftover essentials to the next place.We would see this all the time on the REO side.If they didn't have much stuff and only lived there a few years cash for keys was more successful.You would need to prove they dumped it there.I would just get it hauled away and move on.If it's a short sale at least in my area the former owners are on the verge of bankruptcy and it's a waste of time and energy to go after them.