I went on my first drive today to find my target area/neighborhoods and I think I did very well to only have spent about an hour driving around. I looked for houses that looked like they might be vacant. It wasn’t super easy because there wasn’t a lot of junk in front yards or anything like that, but I took other clues (slightly overgrown lawn (i mean, it’s january in colorado so there isn’t much lawn anyway), broken fences, and junk in backyards). I took down the addresses and came home to check out the assessor’s website. One of the houses on my list is in foreclosure and two said that they had a “family/in-house transfer”. Now does this mean that they are most likely inherited houses that someone would want to get rid of? One has a sale price with the transfer (house A), the other has zero as the sales price (house B).
House A says the deed type was a warranty deed and House B was a quit claim deed. My question is if either of these might indicate a motivated seller. Or is it impossible to tell from this information and I should just send out letters?