I was able to find the property and make a meeting without a broker so am wondering if I even need to use one or can use my real-estate lawyer to facilitate the deal?

I know that I could broker notes that our bank would not be interested in, but I could not in good conscious try to facilitate a deal during my business hours, so getting around that will be difficult.

If it were me, I would do 1 of two things:1- Hold it, pay it off after a few years with the cash flow and then its all profit to you.2- If there is a larger unit available that caught my eye, I would use the equity to facilitate that purchase.  

I am a licensed Oregon agent, got the license to facilitate our REI business. 

In order to discount the price we are working without a buyers agent and just have a facilitator to do the paperwork.

Again, just trying to open a dialogue to facilitate learning and improvement.

Welcome to BiggerPockets @Elaine Gee.well done on facilitating the deal

In this case I dropped my fee from what would have been 2.5% to me down to 2% to facilitate the transaction.

I am shamelessly stealing the idea of @Brie Schmidt for Chicago but I think it would be a good idea to do a roll call for CT investors in an effort to facilitate networking with other CT investors.

The point here is because the standard real estate contract is so widely used in the industry it makes it a widely excepted contract to facilitate real estate transactions.