Can't flash anything to XT1056

I recently purchased a Moto X XT1056 through eBay to use as a guinea pig for flashing custom ROMs without risking my primary phone. When I first booted the phone, the last owners account was still present and alot of apps were crashing. I didn't care because I was going to wipe it anyway. I do eventually, and frustratingly, make it to the Settings Menu that allows me to factory reset the phone. It restarts, does its thing and reboots, but it didnt get wiped. I thought, 'No worries, I'm going to unlock it and that will wipe it.'

I started following the instructions on the CM website.

First thing I did was use the Moto web site to get an unlock code and unlock the bootloader. I'm assuming that succeeded because I get the Bootloader unlocked boot screen and the bootloader screen says 'Device is UNLOCKED. Status Code: 3'.

Then I tried to flash twrp-2.8.7.0-ghost.img per the instructions and get this result:

Code:

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[root@computer phone]# mfastboot flash recovery Recovery.img
(bootloader) Variable not supported!
target max-download-size: 768MB
sending 'recovery' (8498 KB)...
OKAY [  0.834s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [  0.949s]
finished. total time: 1.783s
[root@computer phone]#

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I assume everything is fine and reboot into Recovery using the bootloader screen, but all I get is the dead android and red triangle. Pressing VOL+ and Power get me to the stock recovery where I can reboot the machine. It boots into Android and I notice that the unlock didn't wipe the device. I turn it off and using the button combo boot into the bootloader then select Recovery and use the stock recovery to factory reset the device. I reboot the phone and see that the previous owners account is still there and there are a bunch of popups stating that apps are crashing. I have tried a number of things from a few threads I have read, but nothing seems to work. Trying to flash anything to any partition just seems to succeed without an error, but nothing changes. The only time I get anything different is when i try to erase or format a partition, then I get 'Permission Denied'.

I haven't been able to find any help using search on these forums or using Google.
Please Help.

I do know that it has 4.4.4 on it and Bootloader 30.B7.
I use Linux only and do not have access to a Windows machine.
Android SDK is installed so I have 'adb' and 'fastboot' and I also installed 'mfastboot.'
And, yes, I issued all the commands with root privileges.

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