It is a good way to try someone out a couple of times with having the website as your fall back for any liability reasons. 

The property is located in Maryland so I checked the SDAT website for owner name and mailing address and no luck, the mailing address listed is the same as the property address. 

On there you can track everything, have pictures and even post ads that they will syndicate out to rental websites automatically.

Sounds like they need to go through probate before they are in a position to sell.

I went through the city code violation department to get a list of properties and used the tax assessor website to get addresses but it did not provide any phone numbers.

I am a bit reluctant to do so because it puts us in a position where we will have a 30 yr mortgage at $737/mo.

Applicants must receive positive references from all previous landlords for the previous 5 years.Applicant may not have any evictions or unpaid judgments from previous landlords.Applicant must exhibit a responsible financial life.

Luckily, they agreed to take a backup position.

Corrections are a B*thch - wait this is a family website, Corrects are painful.

Welcome to BP @Cam Shasteen often the county website has information on tax sales.