Any advice on how to organize all this information into a coherent plan?

There is an active real estate meetup organizer in PCB as well.

Head out to one, find an investor doing the type of investing that you also want to focus on, and offer to help them for free with whatever they may need (finding deals, marketing, painting their flip, organization, etc) in exchange for their mentorship throughout your first deal.

As in, an organization, or just not profitable? 

Interested in how to rehab properties and buy and hold for rental income and also to assist other sellers who need an interior decorator to organize, stage and prepare pictures for their open house. 

We also help you through the entire process of the rehab and resell so everything goes smoothly for you.

I think the lenders just kind of grew organically after sharing info and identifying needs on both sides.

Main reason is we would like to buy a house given the growing family but need to make sure we have enough equity in it from the rehab to resell again within a year (or just over) should we have to move (which is a real possibility).

Of course, consult your own tax advisor.As for re-selling a tax deed, I believe the simplest way to do this would be by Quit Claim Deed (i.e., you relinquish your claim to the buyer without warranty).

So I can understand how other organizations may have similar issues.