I am open to partnering with my cash, but for some reason telling people that I can put 70k into a deal screams rip me off.  

If you have 2 Couple A and Couple B believing that "East Palo Alto is ripe for gentrification and appreciation" and Couple C screams: "Heck no, we're the couple that has to LIVE in that place!"

Not a screaming deal by any means, but I'm excited and it should be a good intro to investing. 

I second what @Kate Robb said.  

It just screams "I'm serious" that a free account doesn't.

You quite honestly say you've never done any of thatkind of stuff before and don't even have contacts in markets, so that screams super-high risk level to me, and you want to do that with no income coming in from anywhere else?

But got out bid on 2 different fourplexes, one because of an all cash offer (I'm doing traditional financing) which was a screaming deal at $650k and the other was just over a mil but seller went with a local company that wanted it for their artist and she wanted to stick with building the Issaquah community.

Quote from @Kate Szeto: I have a property manager whom I have some doubts and wanted to ask for opinions on this forum.

@Kate B.Is Bigfoot (cig-llc) only licensed for STR properties in California ?

One thing that I have difficulty with is children noises during play and screaming.