Contemplating a bid of $55k. 

I am contemplating getting rid of the $200 per month as well as the yard is tiny and the only cleaning is the small common area and two single bathrooms.  

A real estate broker, for the purposes of this article, is defined to be a person, firm or corporation who, for a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, or by reason of a promise or reasonable expectation thereof, lists for sale, sells, exchanges, buys or rents, or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale, exchange, purchase or rental of real estate or an interest therein, or collects or offers or attempts to collect rent for the use of real estate or solicits for prospective purchasers or assists or directs in the procuring of prospects or the negotiation or closing of any transaction which does or is contemplated to result in the sale, exchange, leasing, renting or auctioning of any real estate or negotiates, or offers or attempts or agrees to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon or transfer of any real estate for others, or any person who, for pecuniary gain or expectation of pecuniary gain conducts a public or private competitive sale of lands or any interest in lands.

With this in mind, I am contemplating taking capital out of my Roth IRA, take the penalty and tax hit to be able to grow as fast as possible in buy and holds.

Our state lobbyist out of Olympia spoke for a full hour on the socialistic bills and ideas coming out of the city council in Seattle in the Capitol.They are contemplating or have already enacted rules regarding no rent raises when service calls are unresolved, must show cause to terminate a m-m agreement, rent control, 5% capital gains taxes on RE sales (in addition to the 1.7% excise tax), pre-'78 lead inspections, periodic unit inspections, etc.  

Very disappointed in this and I'm even contemplating making the "office" a laundry area (coined laundry).

For our first investment, we are contemplating partnering with another couple, which would be another area I would appreciate input on.  

You could also contemplate buying 2 turnkey (100-120k total) for immediate passive income and use a portion of the 80k to fund another fix-and-flip which will net you faster profits.

I do have businesses set up for this and am contemplating moving the properties into the LLCs, trying to figure out if I should do this after the refi ...

I am contemplating starting to look for such records in my area...but i dont want to do a lot of manual work myself - so im hoping to find a list broker source of these, or else find someone willing to do the research for a birddog fee when i close on a property.