She choose to take a cash offer from me with a delayed occupancy for 2 months to give her time to move out.

Google the job he's been offered at the base.

Would love to hear if anyone has any good ideas/resources for obtaining such list.

Offer a payment plan no longer than six months.If they don't pay, I send them to collections and assume I'll never see a dime.

I've seen conflicting information on when/whether these costs are deductible — most, including Pub. 536, seem to apply to the *purchase* of a rental property, and resources that deal with sales have focused heavily on either straight-up sales with capital gains taxes or on 1031 exchanges with deferred gains.

With houses sitting on the market longer, I am thinking of offering the house as a short term rental until it sells.

You could also try to contact the seller directly and even make them a back-up offer if their contract with the wholesaler is ending and then buy it directly from the seller. 

I believe the DLBA offers it to the next highest bidder.One other potential scenario is the winning buyer was willing to pay ~$100,000 for this house AND they are a city employee or has a relative that is a city employee.

. $140 equity in our primary residence that we’d be open to getting a HELOC on (would love feedback on if people recommend this or not).Given our limited available resources for down payment, high home prices, and higher interest rates, is now a bad time for first time investors to enter the market?

I was in IT for 42 years :)Perhaps in 5 or 10 years that might be the case, but I don't see it at this moment or the immediate future and am not aware of any products yet.Zillow has the resources and the need.