What I am currently doing: connecting with as many people as possible (lenders, agents, other investors, wholesalers, no contractors yet but it's on my list), continually looking for properties and getting comfortable analyzing them, educating myself on the numbers side of things, using the flip BP calculator, learning about the market I want to invest in, viewing a few properties with an agent to get the feel of that, I have not allowed my credit to be run or any pre-approvals. 

Sign in sheets and 24 hour pre approvals for open houses? 

(Maybe you could make some sort a pre-arrangement with them - or work with an angel investor that could front the money and then you reimburse them with a hard money loan or something like that).  

November pre-eviction process was started, December got an attorney to evict. 

It can be if that is what you know and can find good team members in.You should be engaging an lender now to get a pre-approval.

It is a pre-existing multi-family building in a commercial(C-3 Zone).

Do you have a  full blown loan pre approval completed yet ? 

I just look back when I was doing pre foreclosure work.. before it became illegal in Oregon and Washingon..

I am about to say these illegal immugrant thing is pre-designed to keep the rate artificially high.

If anyone thinks they have the expertise to target pre-foreclosures in the face of federal laws, attorneys being in the mix dealing on either side of these matters, Realtors being aware of the legal environment, banks delaying procedures in anticipation of sales or solutions, bank employees reviewing contracts and pending steps, what a seller may do in expectation of a sale and other issues.......well, you just have at it.