I'm stubborn and a little adventurous and I hate hiring contractors to work on MY house.

If it is free and clear with a stubborn owner then I don’t see you having a lot of leverage if they refuse to upgrade the property further or change anything to make it completive the with local market.

I was too stubborn to pay someone for something I thought I could do.

The stubborn refusal to quit that determination and grit bring will take you farther than anything else. 

All that said, it's priced on the higher end and I'm thinking that the seller (importantly, the seller is the owner, the flipper, and the realtor), might just be stubborn on price.

As long as you did not engage with the listing while it was active on the market there is no issue with procuring cause.The issue with expireds is that they are usually overpriced (at least relative to condition) and sellers are often stubborn and would not listen to their agent about lowering the price.

Without even knowing they EXIST, they checked me out, did their research and all on their own convinced themselves I am the one to choose... all this while I have no knowledge of their existence.Now... you can either be stubborn, and for ever spend the money and by statistics... ar emore likely to fail than succeed... or be that 3% out of the box thinkers that take the path untraveled and crush everyone else in their market.Don't get me wrong .. you CAN make a deal using DMM... it simply is a WAY inferior not-so-smart method trying to get a deal.As for how often you send the mailers out?

If they haven't reduced after two months in the hottest multi market in every state, they are being stubborn.

Which is more than you can say about that stubborn Heinz ketchup bottle.

Right now, I do not feel comfortable partnering and only want to use my own 100K  (I understand I'm being stubborn and creative financing is a big aspect of it and is probably like asking for advice on how to swim without using your legs).