The owner is a former mortgage underwriter and she is preparing documents herself and having her friend at a title company execute the sale.  

My objective is to buy about an acre of land, that is already leveled, access is being done, and utilities are going to be 5 feet from the property; and then build 3-4 shell retail spots on my plot, owner occupy one of them with a business and lease out the others.I am meeting with a developer this weekend, but have some wrong numbers regarding the average cost of building a shell space. 

Quote from @Paul Cijunelis: The property owner fills out the form, along with their agent/PM.

Thats just incorrect if its owner occupied.

Put in offer, accepted Wooot. within inspection time period (Owner occupants) we went back and the electric was off and there was 3 inches of water in the basement.

There were issues syncing the reservation calendar, and it is nearly impossible to reach a customer support representative with Booking.com as an individual STR owner.

I had an investor that was willing to put it under contract and then it nearly fell out when he asked for too much from the business owner.

So owners should talk more to owners to get real feedback. 6.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

@Chris SeveneyYou have to know why the owner wants to sale.