Also divorced, have a 12 year old son, 50/50 custody.Basically - the divorce and subsequent custody fights in court with an ex-wife who keeps trying to take away my 50/50 time have taken their toll financially.  

In the next few weeks I will be working for Enterprise as a Management Trainee. 

You will need extra reserves for each property and the underwriting will be different for properties that you don't intend to live in, thereby making it more difficult to qualify for each subsequent loan.

Does any one know who is handling (and subsequently discharging/releasing) Washing Mutual mortgages?

It is very important to understand that your response rates will go up with subsequent and consistent mailings.

It's your money and (subsequently) your debt so you can't really depend on someone else to create that thesis for you.That thesis can guide you to short-list cities, areas within cities, property types, etc.  

If you win a lien you can pay the subsequent taxes.  

Do you have a tool or method to determine if the expired has subsequently been relisted or not? 

I don't know that much about this stuff so I could be wrong...In my wall of text above, believe I did say above that we did buy about $80K worth of properties (two ~$40K lots) through that agent the first go around.I didn't mention above that we also brought two other extra lots in the same subdivision (we have lots of kids & family) for another $95k and subsequently sold one of those for $75K, all through that same agent and the agent was paid on all of those transactions (80+95+75=$250K thus far).The agent did help us get to/from all of them though my sister and I found most of them that time also.

They're trying to get STR prices with their midterm so they're priced ridiculously high and, subsequently, aren't getting rented.