For what you want to do, which I think is very honorable thing to do, I would suggest you take a different route. 

We have a real estate attorney, - Is there a suggested amount of properties to have in one trust? 

Pay some guru $25k who will tell you that you can make $250k a year if you do this simple five step process.

Balancing that against your (company's) value-add comes down to salesmanship on your part.Here's how you may want to handle those questions (just a suggestion) ...Them: "... and would you consider lowering those fees?"

It’s not as simple as cutting the budget in half merely because the SF of the home is half.

Besides trying the above (i.e. phone calls, facetime, text, whatsapp, pictures, etc) I would suggest you hire someone to be your eyes and ears down in LA. 

Hey Michael, I would suggest you start learning about the main tax-advantaged strategies in real estate.

Usually, these are tied to your paycheck too which makes the payback simple as long as you are working at that company during the entire payback period. 

Since the foreclosure, along with no recorded mtgs showed up supposedly by searching their names, I suspect this may be the case. what do you suggest i do cus i really want to know if i own any more money 

I was going to suggest the same thing as Russell-contact the realtor's office.