I wrote a few Biggerpockets blog posts on finding off-market properties online, offline and by building relationships here.

Good luck and contact me offline I can recommend some good agents to you. 

Thanks, and I'm looking forward to connecting with some of you on and offline.

I've done most of the marketing online and offline, for some reason homeowners refuse to sell, which I understand not everyone is going to sell. 

Have some contacts for you and you can IM me offline.  

I strongly suggest the following:Complete your profile and upload a face pix such that you'd be recognizable in person.You are asking some pretty granular questions for a site populated by 80-90%+ starters.This being said, what you are describing are offline>online>offline strategies.Sending highly targeted direct response mail pieces, even PURL (personalized URL's) now has the challenge of keeping the prospect engaged during conversion and the high possibility of them beginning to search other site of competitors, now that you got them to go online. 

Happy to answer more questions offline

I presume he is going to be renting it out.I can tell the MLS folks to let me negotiate directly with said broker or negotiate on my behalf (for a nominal fee).If I choose to negotiate directly with the broker on this offer, is there any legal or other precedent that prevents us from suggesting in the negotiation that we let his "official" offer expire (he put a 48 hour clock on it) and we take the deal offline and accept it as is to eliminate the commission where we both are happy campers in the end?

Lot's of us get together offline too.

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