I could have bought downtown Palo Alto and sat back to just collect the rents and been a multi millionaire in short time without all the Sweat Equity that I have had to put into my rentals here in S.

I'm newbie,  I made a offer on a short sale then I found out that the process could take very long, so I decided to look for another property, as a first timer, should I leave that short sale offer open and and start another property?

We had property management up here in NWI and we still rented units in a rather short amount of time. 

It sounds like the lender is going to have to cut their losses on the existing owner and foreclose on them or do a short-sale type transaction where you purchase it, but at a value less than what the lender owes. 

If you're ever short on inventory of properties, call other wholesalers in your area.

Some advice would be really helpful here and time is short here since they may accept the other offers before mine.

If you have a realtor find properties for you, it'll likely be that you'll be paying close to market values for a property unless you get one that specializes on short sales and/or foreclosures.  

Three doors in such a short time is awesome!

They should be familiar with foreclosures, short sales, auction.com as avenues for procuring deals.2.

Long story short, we purchased our first HUD building at the beginning of the year.