Sellers are sophisticated enough to pick the best offer, they only see the price and the terms, any other negotiating tactics are a waste of time.  

We pay them back at close.For people/teams that do something similar, I'm curious what software you use or spreadsheets you've created to: Track cash current cash flow and projected cash flow for the whole business that including fixed costs like payroll and variable costs as well.

August 2024 payroll numbers continue to show a resilient job market, despite revisions expected to push the data higher, following a trend seen in previous years.

Or that they’ll be able to use a highly sophisticated technique that can really only successfully be utilized when all the stars align and in circumstances that occur irregularly and need to be recognized as such, always by an experienced real estate investor.  

At that time I am not sophisticated enough.

You listed two but in broader terms financing (assumable, owner financed, sub to, fha, new 95% OO LTV that in most ways is superior to FHA, dscr, F/f conventional, NACA, VA, etc), value adds (development including ADU, upzoning, traditional rehab, sophisticated value adds that leverage localized rules, coop/tic, etc),  property types (residential, commercial residential, land, storage, MHP, industrial, office, camping, hotel/motel, etc), passive/active investment methods (GP, LP, REIT, nnn, self managed, pm, flipping, mineral right, lumber rights, etc), residential rent models (LTR, STR, MTR, rent by room, student housing, arbitrage, etc).  

Maybe she had a well paying job for a year and then went back to school and back on your payroll.

Most employers now direct-deposit, so you can also cross-verify the legitimacy of paystubs (are their payroll deposits equal to paystub income?).

I know some very big players in this industry, millionaires many times over, and they are not close to $400k monthly net on payroll.

I like the complex value add projects, but I also have 30 people on payroll to handle these things.