The realtor procured an accepted offer.

Alternatively, you can buy a home security yard sign and, perhaps, a faux security camera off eBay.My house is secured by two ADT yard signs procured from someone who used to sell security systems for a living.  

If the market is as hot as you claim, people will pay the fees to procure housing  

OR Should I procure a hard money pre-approval and go hunt for the deal?

Also @Anson Young he did mention it might be difficult to procure an accredited investor, or that we would need to build some experience first.  

It's do-able, but sometimes paying a few extra percentage points on the hard money is worth the ease or procurement.

I was looking into it on GroundFloor looks like a good way to make money on your money while procuring more funds elsewhere thanks for the tip.

I'm in our procurement department, so I spend all day working with our suppliers of both goods and services, helping folks at our resort properties sort through issues, finding strange/large/expensive/hard-to-find items, and bidding out items that we need for various projects to generate savings for the company.

On actually procuring funding from investors, there are several BP podcasts to discuss that topic in more depth. 

This is a FSBO and I wanted to create an effective process for procuring off market deals also I was unable to find someone to work on a flat fee.