I am planning to maximize and utilize this time to educate myself, understand the market trends in terms of incline/decline of housing volatility (mortgage perspective), job movements, and social/economic/political factor that influences in the RE market.

If you think you may come back to AZ and have family that could watch over your property, I'd be more inclined to keep it.  

You can increase your odds by buying liens on houses without mortgages, if you have the time and inclination to do that leg-work ahead of time on the 100s of houses you might possibly want to bid on.Please feel free to correct me if I have anything wrong here.  

Again, that factors 0 for maintenance.I'm inclined to think that I should offer like $260k but I doubt they accept that.

The husband (a welder) has been with his company for nine years and is mechanically inclined, so they indicated that he would be willing to do repairs and maintenance on the house.  

Inspectors will point out every noticeable thing when they are so inclined, and this inspector seems to have that inclination. 

The large lenders were more inclined to sell their loans like this therefore you see this with the big banks, where the judicial process is required because they can't foreclose as they normally would on a trust deed.

In 2011 his estate decided that the public needed this information. it was too valuable to be kept secret. i'm inclined to agree with them.it's all relative, but to me, it had a bigger impact. it resonated with me more than think and grow rich. i learn better by seeing how a philosophy is applied to real life circumstances as opposed to reading about it. anyways, welcome aboard. read, listen to podcasts, get connected with a REIA and take action consistently and you'll be successful.

I am very mechanically inclined so after my first few properties I will be doing renovate and hold rental properties.As far as my strategy goes I will be purchasing two properties every year for three years.

We don't have enough cash to buy a rental out right, and she is hesitant to buy a rental with a mortgage.I think as we are closer to paying off our house she may be more inclined to get more SFRs.