Thank you hopefully I can keep with my daily routine and network enough to get my first flip in my belt bay mid year.

I also don't like having them on auto-pay since I routinely pay the mortgages at different times throughout the month as the rent checks come in. 

Let's pretend we're in NYC, where rents for studios routinely run $3000/month. 

On the other hand, I acknowledge all offers, let the buyer's agent know should the seller wish to counter or reject I will also forward that immediately, and forward them to the owner....but if a buyer's agent tries to "demand" a response, and starts the "I'll call your broker routine" I remind them that the owner is not obligated to respond, I'll forward it if he does, here's my broker's cell number, but in the mean time you're going to the bottom of the callback list and "have a good life", in other words.....

If your wholesaler is taking title to the property (owning it), then it's pretty much a routine transaction.

Keep doing the right things over and over on a daily routine.  

There will be routine sampling (microbiological and chemical) required and a certified operator must be hired to make daily chlorine checks on the water system.

. , we have income less PITI, less lawn care on the duplexes, less routine maintenance (5%), less turnover costs (7%), and misc items like education (1%).  

Long term major repair reserves should be at least 10% so there you have 50%.Now if your rent is actually $2000/month, insurance, routine maintenance etc will not be 10% but probably less.

I'd do my best to stoke up a bidding war and let him tell me what concessions his side is prepared to make.From what I'm reading it sounds like you were in a routine negotiation and you seem to have taken offense that the other side wanted a better deal.