Otherwise, it must be  officially done by the City. 

My biggest concern is just the fact that we might not officially go under contract on the house we like best until a few days after we close on the first one in a few weeks, with our FHA loan, and we definitely won't have 20% to put down on either. :-/  Definitely appreciate your advice and will see what we can find out about investor friendly loans with our broker.

This particular county just had an auction a couple weeks ago and they only do 2 per year, so they've told me it won't be until the fall at least, but they don't announce the date until about a month before. 

You may do much better buying out of town or even out of state.If you want to More Best Place Buying and  selling real estate AndroidpowerhubBest for Most Houses: Realtor.com Realtor.com is, not surprisingly, the official search portal for the National Association of Realtors.

Basically its the same as LEEF cert but you actually dont get the building officially certified by LEED.

WYNN announced it will build a man made lake and a new tower by 2020.

But as I said above in either case it has to be probated because that is how title is officially transferred.  

You're now officially a RE investor.

However, we could list our home tomorrow for $140K.Clearly I understand that I'm comparing apples to oranges bc a mobile home is not officially real estate and our house is.My point is, I think (and I could be wrong) that I could rehab this property and sell it for $27K.Thank you all for the input, this really helps as BP is my one and only location for industry professionals to weigh in on this situation.I know my first deal won't be... well, ideal.  

just waiting for them to close :) My first official deal!