To answer your questions here though:Alternative options - I was going to sell all my stocks and etfs, take out a HELOC, and some credit cards to try to shoestring together enough to the deal without a hard money loan. 

Use 1031 Exchanges to Defer TaxesIf you’re selling a property, a 1031 exchange allows you to defer capital gains taxes by reinvesting the proceeds into another property.

If I were ever forced to take Section 8, I would start selling off anything I had in that jurisdiction.

@Brett Coultas if you're a newbie, you want to be careful of an "investor friendly" agent selling you something they truly don't understand:(95+% of agents only know how to handle owner-occupied transactions - you can verify this by asking them calculate ROI for you or Cash-On-Cash!

If the county is just posting the minimum bids and that is what you are seeing, they'll likely sell for a lot more than minimum. 

Finding the correct contact info is hard enough, but if your pitch is that they should sell cheap now, you're misreading the market.Multifamily properties are worth significantly less now than they were just a few years ago, and asking for a further discount due to property condition would probably result in a loss, maybe not even pay off the debt.

Conventional (only Freddie Mac See Section 5102.4 of Freddie Selling guide).

. $300sqft to build at least.If you have any sort of mortgage on the property you will need an attorney to handle the mountain of paperwork the bank will give you for a lien release. 10k+, also probably some nightmare terms to have to build and sell immediately and god knows what.At this point a year has passed and you have spent at least $60,000 cash, you're about to break ground on a structure that will cost you at the very least $400,000 to build, you are still 1 year away from cashing out because you have to now build a house.

We'll sell the properties if we can't find a PM company that works. 

Customer service is always great when they have something to sell, I am sure you know this.