I've spent most of my adult life fixing things and its what I enjoy doing and want to help someone else out in their real estate journey as well!  

Most agents would begin the conversation by asking if you're working with another agent, and if so, they would either ask you to sign an exclusive agreement or let you and the agent work together.

You want someone who deals with investors almost exclusively.

You get to put the capital to work exclusively for the benefit of the IRA and entirely at arm's length.

I am told Adult Protective Services can help in some way? 

yeah, Title companies differ and what are considered "standard" exclusions differ also as per the company.

However, Its great to see that when an agent offers fantastic value and service to their clients their clients rave of them and show them exclusivity. 

This would either be living in a home that you can rehab as you live there (preferably for 2 years for the home gain exclusion so you never have to pay tax on the gain up to $250k or $500k if filing joint taxes) OR buying a multi-unit property and living in one of the units and renting the other ones (you can get conventional residential financing up to 4 units). 

These also don't have to be mutually exclusive which I'm sure complicated valuations and analyses.

Not exclusively...and not always as successfully as I'd like...but generally...yes that's the intent :-)