However, for now I will just say I am in the beginning stages and trying to put my team together while I learn how to find and evaluate properties...As I am sure is the case with most newbies...Investors to lend/fund deals, mentor to help me learn how to quickly but appropriately with full details ANALYZE PROPERTIES (there are a million sites out there and I do not want to just rely on RE AGENTS to get back to me) and contractors in areas from Anacortes to Redmond, WAI live in La Conner, WA and am doing this as my last ditch effort to avoid going back to the corporate world and still be able to build generational wealth for the young ones in my family and put myself and my husband on more solid ground for ours.

For a rental I'd ditch the laminate and go with Allure vinyl plank flooring from Home Depot. 

I know that you weren't asking for specific advice but...my first bit of advice is to ditch the property manager.  

May be ditching real estate for awhile or just adds a nice little variety (and ROI) to my portfolio!

Mind you this is after working in finance for 10 years and the fact that I’m a mortgage loan officer - I could have gone straight to investing and ditched school.

So the question is ditch the .com and go with a random one.

I ditched the idea of buying anything in CA and started looking out for out of state investment.

So on the flip side, it looks like the Seller is trying to ditch the property, perhaps taking advantage of the less than conventional standards of credit worthiness of the borrower/buyer.

This would be in a last ditch effort situation like yours.

@Marty Summers I would say go ahead and mail whoever you like, but i would avoid any language in the mailings suggesting they ditch their agent and sell to you.