@Makani Donaldson as a PMC, can tell you that trying to go around a PMC and "Cut out the middle man" to get to the owner will just make your name mud in your area.Who's going to trust you?

So, you could contact the owner and make a backup offer.

End of that relationship came when owner called us and expected us to go pick up their guy, who's truck broke down, and drive him to the house - and didn't want to pay us anything for this!

If you have none of that, you could fudge higher on housing debt.C Credit.  

With this strategy, we knew exactly how each house was operating and we could intervene or change leadership of the house if necessary to assure operations were going as we expected. 

Starting with an owner-occupied duplex is a smart way to build equity and gain experience.

There's alot of neglected housing out there, gentrification.

I want them thinking like owners. 

I wouldn't go into it with any preconceived notions of what the owner's intentions, situation or motivation may be.

She said the owners wanted to owner finance to avoid dealing with tenants.