HOW DO U BUY THRU PROBATE/DEAD PEOPLE/TRUSTEES???
I WAS DOING TAX DEED...WHICH EVERY TOM DICK & HARRY IS DOING....SO BASICALLY NO MONEY LEFT IN IT....LOOKING FOR OTHER WAYS TO BUY PROPERTIES VIA PROBATE/TRUSTEES ETC....AND NEED HELP....HOW DO I BUY THRU PROBATE/TRUSTEES???DO I NEED 'INSIDE' CONNECTION??STEPS I SHOULD TAKE?? PLZ HELP///ANYONE GIVING ME CORRECT INFO...WILL GET A BUSHEL OF FRESH FLORIDA ORANGES OR RUBY RED GRAPEFRUIT...THATS MY PROMISE.
THANKS 
I don't want any oranges. Please don't type in ALL CAPS, it's annoying.
Now, your best source is to contact attorneys who specialize in probate. Tell them you are interested in purchasing real estate when it becomes available. Several around here were pretty receptive to this method.
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Idea I heard that makes some sense to me: prepare a batch of fliers on brightly colored paper and deliver a bunch to law offices.
Being brightly colored they'll stand out, and your possibly offering a source of money to the lawyers' clients, the fliers will probably be kept & maybe even go on a bulletin board.
Lawyers are pretty good about keeping all kinds of "3d party" material that might be of help to them or their clients sometime in the future.
Contrary to popular (or their spouses') belief, they DO sometimes clean out old files, but generally not until they've carefully made copies of everything.
You might even get lucky and find some lawyer standing around the receptionist' s desk when you go in and you'll get a chance to chat with him/her.
But don't expect that, and you'll basically just be leaving them with the receptionist and asking her to please see that the firm's lawyers each get one.
I'd guess that if you keep doing that, you will get calls & some business opportunities.
Whenever someone dies and their estate in not in a trust, it must pass thru probate. A file is opened at the count clerk's office and a number assigned to it. This file shows who the executor is and the various beneficiaries as mentioned in the will if there was one. Send a letter to the executor indicating you are aware he may own a property (you get this info fm the tax assessors office) at such and such address and ask if he is interested in selling. Probate cases can be accessed online in many counties but you have to find out the case file sequence and then search record after record. I suggest you visit the courthouse, look in the probate register at the clerk's and see what the current case numbers are. Pull out a number of cases and read thru them to get a feel for the information in the file. After this you can do most of your research online.
Rgeards,
Bob