Quote from @Conte Cuttino: My advice is very basic: always hold a property unless you can sell and invest the money in something that provides a greater return or moves you closer to your goals.

Your first response is to spend thousands extra in legal fees to get back to where you were before you asked for a discount on a properly priced property.  

Do you have reserves to cover extra days on market if it doesn't rent like anticipated?

I appreciate any guidance anyone can provide. 

If anyone could provide some insight into where the best zip codes to invest would be and also any referrals to boots on the ground would be amazing!

I’m going to shop around to some of the companies you all provided and also do some networking with brokers! 

For anyone new and Learning - anytime anyone says anything that insinuates a guarantee or provides a guarantee run as far away as possible

I have a "notebook" (that's basically a file folder, in Evernote) for different types of info I want to have access to later: lender info, referrals for service providers, property listings that I come across and want to check out later, websites that have demographic info... all sorts of things.

Now you enter a bridge loan that will provide 85% (with some exp and good credit) of the purchase and the 57k in escrow for rehab funds. 

I appreciate any insight and advice this community can provide.