So, the next person you should talk to is the lender unless you are paying cash.  

I would request copies of the trust paperwork that shows who the trustee is, and make sure the person you are submitting the offer to is the trustee.

It's not that I don't understand the cash flow, but how to I go from that to being able to have enough cash flow to retire from working for others?  

I think a personal recommendation would help most (so if anyone wants to help out a rookie feel free to).I work in PE Real Estate and we typically only deal in gateway markets, however we will do one off deals in secondary markets if the returns are healthy enough.

A long time ago, @Marie Fleming, over the course of many months, I had one broker call me often with one hard luck story after another about potential borrowers he wanted us to loan to. I

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Any buyer that you will be advertising to is going to do their own analysis of the property and if your numbers don't make sense you will lose credibility with that potential buyer right away.

Can you be more specific in where the "cash back" you are referring to is?

IE in the case of a default to the person you sell it to.. I