I find great deals for my investors on that site, plus I use a little common sense when trying to find sellers who are desperate to sell, it's very useful

Little background.
Signed a contract last May on a 3 family in a desirable area in Cincy Ohio. $257k purchase price. Rents are low, brings in about $1900 a month now.

With the lending industry so tight, havent found...

Recently I got myself into a situation where I sold my place sooner than I expected and the permits for my new house have been hung up with a flood plains issue for the past 6 months so I was desperate to find a deal so I didn't have to go back to renting (yuck!).

But it sounds more like they are just seeing how desperate you are to sell and if they can get in for cheap.  

Sellers are getting desperate, which is good for you.

You might not be desperate enough yet.Consider asking/begging for an extension, but keep in mind you'll keep bleeding cash - perhaps more than the $10k off list price you weren't willing to sacrifice.

Sky-high rents on uncontrolled apartments, because desperate renters have nowhere to go -- and the absence of new apartment construction, despite those high rents, because landlords fear that controls will be extended?

A truck hit our garage and we were completely without the ability to fix it in  a timely manner due to the time of year could not get a decent contractor to work on it We desperately want to relist but we understand that the property history given what it has become is a major deterent and we feel that we will continue to go round and round.

It's not like there is 1 particular suburb that happens to have an over abundance of desperate sellers.

Hit my point of desperation over the past year.