If I can still smell it, rent a commercial ozone machine.

The marketing machine must continue, especially in the early-going.  

What about a white noise machine, about 40 bucks.... 

There's a lot more to be said about building fruitful and mutually benefiting relationships where each person is the focus and not the dollar amount.  

I'm obviously not a savvy real estate purchasing machine.

An investor, on the other hand, is someone who has money in the deal, meaning that they either purchased the property or are part of a group that purchased the property, but as you note, an investor can and generally is a broad term.All are investors, but a wholesaler has a specific role in the REI machine. 

I've been checking out Redfin, and with two machines open at on I can check open/active listing on one, then closed sales on the other.

The insurance companie's remediation co did a lot of demo work and set various machines to dry the house.

They will give a free estimate and they bring this machine that they place in the house to see if the house is dropping anywhere.

The "flip" approach was describing special situations, which can often bear fruit in 6 months or less (though admittedly much less reliably so than a house flip).