Within the past 2 weeks, most of the pre-foreclosures I had contacted now appear in the "auction" status with dates set in the next couple of weeks.

They charge $1250 week during peak season and $750 wk/ during off season.

I leave my house to go to work everyday (7 days a week)at 6amI get home at 5pm 7 days a week.

Wait until the floors are done, if you don't the house will show terribly, and the pictures will not convince potential tenants to even inquire, not to mention that they can't move in for 2 weeks.

I will be in the area next week.

We closed in September and I took full possession last week. 

So, I'm very interested in prospect of using a portion of my net worth to invest in real estate now before this opportunity is lost (i.e. from not being able to get a mortgage, or at least as good of one, post-quitting)*.So, I'm looking to try to acquire my first rental property during the week of 7/3-7/10 - which is when I'll be in the area I'm looking to invest in, and be living long-term starting in August (aside from traveling 90% of the year).I've watched a handful of YT videos and read some blogs on real estate investing in the last day, but I'm looking for any quick advice that might make a big difference.

I was set to close on a property next week.

A week later, a service technician at Amazon Web Services threw the wrong switch by mistake and half the Internet went down for a few hours (AWS says changes were made to prevent this from happening again).

My deadline to close on the property is July 10th (Two weeks) and the owner said he has a cash buyer lined up.