but knowing they employ all types of sales techniques that can have you paying too much.

You need more than just the techniques and the formulas to evaluate deals, which you can Here.

I would appreciate any creative financing techniques that may be good in this situation.

I'm 19 and loved reading rich dad poor dad and yea I agree with you the strategies can be quite overwhelming I'd say best thing is to pick one or two mentors and take some of their techniques and mix and match to formulate something your confident in You can do it keep expanding your knowledge you'll get their in no time It doesn't have to take 30 to 40 years to become a millionaire you can do it with real estate quickly with the right moves .

Without going through appraisal techniques, you can expect a fair option price the go between 25-75 % of the expected increases.

Evictions can take a while, and damage needs to be fixed, and then some kind of marketing for a new tenant  I recommend three months reserves for every property  I recommend that you be licensed so that you can show the property in case it interferes with your realtor laws in Oklahoma  I also recommend that you have some kind of a collection company that takes the payment directly from the tenant buyer to the mortgage company not to the seller  If you do have reserves, and the tenant buyer wants to buy the property, I use a reverse assignment technique that basically create your equity in the contract in the form of a note, attached to the property, and instead of two closings you have one closing, a new contract from the seller to the tenant buyer, but you get paid when the house closes and pays off your noteI love Oklahoma City because it has great  Yeilds between what you get from rent and what your mortgage payment is PITI

I've been studying different Real Estate investing techniques. 

I read the "Five Step Property Evaluation" technique from the book "The ABC's of Real Estate Investing" forword by Robert Kiyosaki & writen by Ken McElroy.1.

Be patient and get your financing ducks in a row so that when you do come across a deal, you can jump on it.To find that deal, you'll find lots of techniques detailed out here on BP.

I see several different techniques that are used here.