All my creative acquisitions have been belly to belly direct with the seller. 

Pardon my fat finger typing and auto correct.

Option 2, as needed but I wouldn't sign an exclusive buyers agreement or whatever the term is.My best deals have all been completely off-market, belly to belly. 

Here you come along with a nice juicy Chicken melt bacon sandwich slobbered in bacon fat, and you ask these 10000 starving people: "Who Wants This Sandwich?"

Fat luck with your loan and your daughter and all the rest of your broke BS in this market, Bubba.

Dos Santos, Fat Sully's, Streetcar 520 all in that new strip.

@Rodrigo Bell I think this comes down to whether or not you want to spend the time, effort and money to become good at doing the real estate agent roll. 

I am a belly to belly relationship JV partner.. not a lender per se.. but I do a lot of deals and have done many in CA..

thaks--I really needed a belly laugh this morning!

It doesn't, however, seem like there are any mediums for networking outside of BP, so I'd like to see about getting all of my fellow Cheyenne, WY real estate yahoos together to do just that - shake hands, rub bellies, eat wings, drink beers, and of course, network.