Perhaps most encouraging, at least to me, is that although many of the guests are now operating multi-million dollar Real Estate businesses, many stated right where I am now―not knowing exactly where/how to start, afraid of making mistakes, etc.Although we live in CA, we are looking to partner with my wife’s oldest son, who lives in CO.

I plan to do what I read here and make offers that  are so low it would embarrass the most seasoned investor, what's the worst that could happen...they say no and I haven't lost a thing...but what if they say yes because they "hate" the money pit and they would pay me to take it..

It's a classic investor mistake. 

Nobody is going to mistake the Indy RE market for SF.

Buying a 4 plex was likely your first mistake. 

When you loose your job is the worst time to have a $50K loan due in full.

I made a mistake and haven't sent a letter right when finding out but I still intend to.

As far as I can tell this is an unfortunate mistake made by whatever software they are using to scrape the data.

I politely replied that my wife was sitting next to me, and they might have mixed it up and took my ex-wife by mistake.  

If you're not embarrassed by the price of your offer it isn't low enough.....What is the worst that could happen if you offer $150k?