What to do for my first appointment to meet with seller

[Evan Jacobs]

Hello everyone, I'm hopefully going to look at my potential first investment property tomorrow which is an off-market deal. This will be my first time even looking at a property other than my primary house. I will be financing this property creatively so I was hoping to get some advice on what I should be doing beyond checking out the property for potential problems. As I will not have my financing squared away prior to visiting the property, how should I approach the seller? Should I bring a purchase contract with me, be prepared to negotiate and hopefully lock it up immediately? I will be spending the night analyzing and running numbers so any advice on this would be awesome. Thanks everyone!