Playing Fixer Upper (and I need your help. Please!)

We got back into the house-hunting game. We've been off and on for the past year and a half with a few big breaks, and picked up again this summer, but the market around Portland is completely bananas and we haven't had any luck with the offers we've made. Maybe until now...

We got energized again recently. Last week we dipped our toes in again and drove around to six homes by ourselves (all but one vacant), looking in the windows and poking around the yards of the vacant ones (sshhhhhh). None...