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• REASONABLE INVESTIGATION
  
  Statutory process in some foreclosure court jurisdictions mandating the procedures required to certify to the court that the defendant (mortgagor) cannot be found for the purpose of serving (hand delivering) a notice of a complaint in foreclosure, thereby permitting alternate service, usually publication of the complaint in an approved newspaper or nailing it to the door of the property which is called Posting.
  
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