Agents want to sell you the house and then walk away.

That’s the first thing that comes to my mind - sell it and walk away.

My recommendations is to call one of their investor relations specialist and walk through this with them. 

This idea of FIRE in your 20s (dare I say 30s and even 40s) makes zero sense - the idea is propagated by what we see on social media (Some 26 year old walking by his G-Wagon and sipping martinis on the beach 300 days out of the year talking about his billions in RE).

I'd thought about offering 145k and allowing my agent to take a 3% comission ($4,200), use the $800 on any inspection/closing costs, and the seller walks away with 140k.

If there’s no appreciation you walk away.

You will walk away with knowledge and potential partnerships. 

Have you seen the property-ie actually walked it? 

And I visit my markets were I work every quarter and walk every loan..

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast host @Dave Meyer want's to help our community learn by giving real life examples of deals folks from our community have purchased or are considering purchasing by reviewing these deals and walking through step by step how he would think of this deal!