I would do more digging to unearth any potential problems.

This came out in the third meeting, which means we had over eight hours of focused discussions which were all leading to a green light for the partnership before we unearthed the deal breaker.  

I've found asking the neighbors, asking any local FB or other online groups, and calling related relatives often unearths the person rather quickly.On 2) you definitely want to understand the yellow-tag status regardless of whether you will be buying form the existing owner or the bank -- the situation you will be taking over may well be the same regardless of who you buy from -- the house is likely to still be tagged.

However, you typically need to have some type of buyers list to make this work. ie, a market for the deals you unearth.

I responded to a short member introduction and was delighted to unearth one example of how Bigger Pockets connections matter.It seems that Bryan A has been able to PM and physically meet with a new member here who is looking to do his first rehab.

Steve provides great value in unearthing links here and I always enjoy reading his posts.

In my experience, most of the closed deals are unearthed on the follow-up.

Specifically for COMMERCIAL properties where they matter ALOT more.The current inspector that I've hired for my last two commercial projects have been tremendous.He's returned more than 20 fold his fees so far with what he's unearthed.!

@Chris Martin - now that you have the starting point, I think you are good enough to unearth some more on this one, just so you can show Joe how to do the research.

This greatly intrigued me but I have been enable to unearth an information about how to find these records.