If the home has not been auctioned on the court house steps why not simply enter into a purchase agreement with this lady and attempt to do a short sale, if that doesn't work then buy it on the courthouse steps if you are in a position to pay cash.

Attempting to purchase a BOA shortsale with USAA as the 2nd mortgage.

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy houses in just my name or my wife's name in an attempt to stretch out the 10 property limit?

Some of the things they wanted done would either cost a fortune to do tastefully or take away the character of the house.FHA requires very little money down so they want to be sure every toilet flushes and none of the doors stick it seems.

If this is your first flip, don't attempt to do two at once.

I think we need to stop now the character comments and stick to the topic.

Your best chance might be to attempt to buy the hospital debt at a discount, and then you can foreclose (or buy out these people, but why pay them when the estate owes?)

It appears you have already done this, next I would attempt the following.

I was wondering if a good approach to find a mentor would be to go on craigslist and actually find investors who are posting on there attempting to purchase houses and contact them directly from there.

They are older homes, in a Historic area of Conway, so maybe they have a little bit of character than the cookie cutter houses these days.