Abandoned Property

Currently pursuing abandoned property where I live at in Washington State. There are plenty of properties where people have just up and left, leaving the property totally empty and in some cases they have left personal property where it has been dumped outside by by the landlords and which have foreclosed on the property and it belongs to the bank. So in looking up these properties, they are sometimes listed as still occupied by the last occupants. So, you can still find properties without accurate records and the banks may be more than willing to find new occupants to take over the properties; especially properties abandoned for more than year or two.