My idea is to skip trace the Original owner on record and offer him a price for the deed and pay the back taxes and own it out right.

If you want to worry about Security go back to a Job.

That's itIf I could go back I would have spent a little more time focusing my capital on acquiring smaller multi family and understanding the power of a 1031 exchange.

I'd be more worried about finding a property that works vs a bank... you basically need to find a property and contractor that's close to 30% under market value to pull your money back out. 

Remodeled the entire property: new kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, painting interior and exterior, landscaping, new roof on back unit, opened up kitchen to living room in front unit.

I have a construction back ground so right now I am using the Brrrr method and plan on moving from single family to multi-family. 

I just started learning about wholesaling maybe 3 weeks ago. I studied it like crazy and finally felt confident to put a direct mail campaign together. I found addresses of tax delinquencies in the area and mailed my ...

-Half the time we submit an offer to never here anything back.

Investment Info:

Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

Purchase price: $45,000

Cash invested: $60,000

Sale price: $135,000

This was an estate house I found through one of my clients ...

We didn't qualify for the jumbo loan so the previous owner carried back 95k of the loan which we eventually moved over to a HELOC in order to cut ties with the previous owner.