I've established a dialogue with a tired landlord who is selling 12 rental properties.

You can then start a dialogue about "what would you want" and see if you can agree on a price.3.  

Keep the 2 dialogues separate.

I've heard lots of different methods, but I'm curious to engage in dialogue with people actually doing it! 

@Sarah Lacyhappy to dialogue on all of your questions but I cannot recommend strongly enough being willing to either:(1) invest closer to home - possibly a lower cost market in CA, or NV? 

I would like to formally apologize to the group if any of the participants were offended based on the dialogue with regards to AleksVentures.

Do you see any changes I could make to my marketing or call dialogue?

I would suggest not relying on just emails & dialogue from online questioning and suggest reaching out to Norada and talking with one of their Investment Counselors to get all your questions answered.  

My goal of starting this forum is to start a dialogue about potential solutions to the seed capital problem.

He's incurring expenses on you, so charging him a penalty creates financial incentive for him to stay, when you both want to move on.Situations like these are when I have a sit down with my tenant and present them the two options: 1) Pay for whatever they're not paying for (bill back repair costs if you can prove they caused the damage, late rent, etc) and stop bothering me, or 2) leave.The dialogue starts like this "Clearly this isn't working for either of us, so you have two options.