I'd like to partner with them to restore the property and rent it out for events, weddings, STR, etc. and potentially even sell off half the property for a high end private ranch.  

Covid changed ALL of those plans...My job to get more specific; I am a Sommelier and run all of the banquets, weddings, and special events for a top-tier Michelin restaurant in Beverly Hills.

Thankfully our offer and being a newlyweds (using all of our wedding money to purchase the home) became the most appealing offer to the bank owned property (Who knew they had a heart!).

I have a mountain property in mind, near a great wedding venue and a great Mountain town and recreation area, mostly in the summer.  

By this time, we want to be able to retire from corporate America, start my wedding planning business, and my boyfriend wants to grow his wedding photography business, and of course, we both want to keep investing in real estate.

They did a presentation last wed at the meetup about tax liens and I know they were interested in getting a pool of investors to tackle the area together.

Off season wedding rentals too could generate extra income. 

Interest rates are 6.5% for her and 6.8% for me.While we do have a wedding coming up with some more expenses on that front, if you set that aside, we have the ability together to save probably 2k total on top of minimum payments of $800 minimum payments a month on the student loans, which means we can put approx 2800 towards student loans a month.I feel pretty sure that using an FHA loan to buy a multifamily unit (most likely a duplex given what is around us) is a smart play.

I had 3 TEAMS  male female.. and we only door knocked the week of the sale. and you probably know most of WA sales are on Friday so we door knocked mon Tuesday wed .. that's when you got real motivation up until then pre foreclosures are just like throwing darts.. but when reality hits motivation goes way up. and all those that sent direct mail we just would read them laugh and throw them in the garbage as we were cleaning out our latest buy.. 

I just closed on a property along the West side of Cayuga Lake less than a 1/4 mile from a wedding venue.