There are usually a few wholesalers there who sometimes bring a few to the table each month, but either way it's great to make some connections. 

He is also planning on a tile accent wall.  

Speaking from hands on experience on both platforms as I've worked with both Carrot and Wordpress sites (more than 400 sites so far since 2017), what carrot brings into the table is their simple, all in one, fast website platform.

They are a great person & I wish them the best of luck for future work.However, I'm somehow unable to justify the $25k+ I am expected to pay to them as commission on each $1M invested.If I am researching the market myself, creating comps myself, reviewing each disclosure myself, working with the mortgage lender myself, finding problems in the homes myself -  what is the value add that the agent is bringing to the table that I can't execute myself?

All of these come back to one important factor, you need to bring value to the table while mitigating risk.

Nick Raimondi, who claims to be a managing partner at Insula Capital/Atlantic Holdings, after we were working with the seller and our lawyers, got our LLC, jumped through all the hoops they wanted us to, only to sit down at the table yesterday at the lawyers office to yet another stipulation.

- Don’t be afraid to get creative: Every deal is different, and the more solutions you can bring to the table, the faster you’ll build credibility.

I imagine a T-6 is just a Trailing 6 month table that shows our rents, expenses all fully tabulated and organized into a summary table, but having a hard time finding documentation online to support that. 

Going on the first face to face with a seller in years, even after getting 2 deals to the table, this one was tough.Stating the obvious, there is no replacing "the number" but I literally didn't have it in me to say it at that moment.

You should have, or you should create an amortization table that shows the actual interest paid on the $650k mortgage for the first 6 months while you lived there.