Thanks,Diego Hooker HI Diego, sounds like you are doing a lot of really great things to learn about real estate!

You have to be the type of person that will collect/evict as needed, you need to be the type that is either able to do work yourself for turnover or have a existing relationship with a crew, and you need to understand the culture of the neighborhood.I don't have any of that, so I don't buy that type of assets... and from the sounds of it like you I rather a higher class asset with different tenants.

It sounds as though you have set yourself up for success. 1) I don't think there is a surefire way to do this, but I would approach it from the perspective of how real estate investing can be leveraged to meet both of your goals.

This suggestion sounds reasonable for us to at least find out the situation of our houses so we did hire a new property manage company to inspect our houses.The inspection reports sacred us: House 1 ("rent-ready") need a $14,000 to get it ready to rent; House 2 required rehab has nothing done.We communicated with Morris Invest about the inspection results.

Any recommendations for a Seattle/Puget Sound foreclose attorney?

It sounds like you are infected with a very expensive disease I call the "hardly waits".How do I know? 

Sounds like there is some weird stuff going on with the taxes and a possible auction.

It sounds like this 30K is not going to make or break your retirement, and is something that you're willing to take more risk on. 1) how upset would you be if you lost the entire 30 K?

I'll share what I recommend for starters but it sounds like you're already doing a lot of those things!

This 5% down option sounds very interesting!