I could tell from both purchases that they were only concerned with getting the property off their plate, with no interest in taking care of their buyers/investors.

In taking a conservative look at VRBO, this place appears to be in the $250-400 per day range for the prime summer weeks (July/Aug).I'm interested to hear how many weeks you are able to get "max" rent and how your rental rates and length of stay changes during the shoulder and off-season.Any input is greatly appreciated!!

This would mean starting the seller financing with his numbers.We are interested in taking a seller financing route because 1. we do not have the income to approve for a loan upwards of 600s, 2. we thought that he owned it outright but yesterday he mentioned that he has a mortgage of around 140k.

@Dave PetersonIf your interest is primarily in taking a participant loan for $50k, there will be at least $50k remaining in the Solo 401k for investment.

That may or not be enough of a catalyst to trigger (motivate) an owner to take a certain action.A single contact, by letter, postcard, door knock or phone will probably be insufficient to get any but the most absolutely neurotic sellers to be ready to sell, however they are a market (and I do have a checkbox on my intake forms for that, too). 

When B is an agent, encouraging the seller's representative to assist you in taking money out of his/her seller's pocket, I would call this collusion.

I think a huge line to me was crossed in taking her pet to the pound when she said right in front of you the pet has been hers for seven years.

A small Baggie got sucked up in the intake and needed to be removed (and a checklist of items needed to be checked because of it, resetting error codes, etc.).

Because they may have significant higher BTUs, I needed to get 3/4" gas pipe to the unit, for example.Also, it requires sufficient air supply for intake, a closet will not be enough.

I can get the phone to ring (which is a great thing) but then I get swamped in taking the calls and start to question why I got the phone to ring so much in the first place!