Are they only accessible to the tenants or can you rent out to others in the town? 

There are a few self-contained guides that you can access here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guidesI really like the alerts feature that can quickly guide you to current topics that might interest you: http://www.biggerpockets.com/alerts

Crowdfunding makes real estate easily accessible, however, in regard to institutional real estate investments, the advice of an expert who works in the industry every day, knows all the players and their track records, and performs due diligence on each offering is a great benefit to you and comes to you at no cost. 

I agree with @John Underwood, I would just clearly describe that it was 1 bathroom in the listing, I think having a second bathroom advertised that is hard to access would be more likely to garner bad reviews than just having one bathroom.  

In order to get access to more properties sooner, we've decided to partner with a family member who is also very keen on getting into real estate investing.

Keeping the cash in my account enables me to more easily access it.2.)

You don't really have access to preforeclosures and preforeclosures are a created class.

So, I don't think there is any equity for you to access here to buy more property.

Get good at figuring out rehab pricing on the fly, get access to your local MLS so that you can learn how to most accurately comp the properties and also figure out which local wholesalers understand what a good deal looks like. 

You have to have something to give to get something or VIP access to learn.