Depending on what your local market is indicating, you may want to let this first deal go, or keep it and face some possible uncertainty.

You should also find investors locally and network with them face-to-face.

It all starts with meeting face to face that first time, and continuing it. #2) I agree with @Jason Fraser and @Gualter Amarelo to go check out a few different ones.

I guess the REITs have been snapping up everything leaving barely crumbs for the single property buyers...

A bare wire had arced to the metal in the plaster walls  and had started to smoke 3 joists.  

The longer term nature of real estate and IRA investments enable investors to stay calm in the face of temporary setbacks / challenges and allow ample time to execute a turnaround or investment strategy.

You'll start to see a lot of the same faces and learn who the buyers are.  

Make sure you can afford a property manager in your cash flow analysis BEFORE you buy.As for seller financing you are facing the same issue.  

In those situations, the statute also provides that the required disclosure must be given by a separate document at least five business days prior to the purchaser executing the contract for deed.13 Like the rule applicable to contracts for deed resulting from a purchase agreement, failure to give timely disclosure prior to executing the bare contract for deed does not affect the validity of the contract for deed.The statutory disclosure (which must be in at least 12-point type and signed and dated by the purchaser) provides information about contracts for deed that may not be known to the typical unsophisticated purchaser from a multiple seller: a contract-for-deed purchaser does not have the protections afforded a tenant or by mortgage foreclosure laws; the purchaser will be obligated to pay homeowner’s insurance and taxes and make repairs and perform maintenance; the purchaser will need to refinance at the time the “balloon” comes due; and the statutory cancellation process can be quick and the consequences severe.

So when I called three agents (in the LA area), I explained in detail the exact situation that I was facing.