I’ve been very happy with my successes, and I’ve been able to accept my failures with calm and been able to limit the damage to where the few loses didn’t have a majority pact on my net worth.  

And auctions can be a toss up, I have purchased property sight unseen from an auction and did great. 

You have nothing to lose by calling a professional.

You will lose money on this (hopefully you have the minimal resources for it not to bankrupt you) and for the rest of your life you'll tell anyone who listens that real estate is just a bad, bad, bad investment strategy.You jumped into a very tight, very difficult, very high-risk niche specialty without studying it carefully, without having worked with a more experienced investor, without a network and a team in place, without giving yourself a real chance to go through the learning curve.

While they can be quite loyal, they are usually not easily trained and tend to lose focus if a threat draws their attention.

I Like Multi Family just because it scales faster and you don't have to worry about losing 100% of the rent every time you have tenant turn over.

My goal is to not lose money these two months. 

If you have something to buy it's worth it, but don't force yourself to buy something you normally wouldn't consider...With that said you can be little flexible seeing as you're hypothetical buying power is greater (by whatver you'd "lose" to taxes).

We have always been interested in Memphis, TN for an investment property, so that is where we are setting our sights next!

Here's an example: look at how much of the job growth in SF is based on companies that lose billions of dollars a year and have no chance of ever making money.