But its a good example of how my negotiating techniques negotiated myself right out of a deal. :-)For every win you get, there are usually one or two losses you have as well like that.

Use the current flood insurance amount to negotiate a better purchase price while looking into mitigation techniques that will lower your premiums when you own the property for better cash flow.  

I have unlimited amounts of time to leverage because I don't work, but I am spending many hours a day reading, watching, and listening, and hoping it will all open up to me.I don't even know what techniques I want to focus on.

Normally, they would say "what do you mean by that", which is a perfect opener for the various techniques I use (Subject, To, Wrap, Lease Option, etc) and that it didn't require fixing up the house or house "showings".

Real estate has always been a get rich slow technique for most.

Many years back i talked an investor client into trying this out on 1 property with tenants, and doing the "norm" on the other down the same street. 1yr later we showed up for annual inspections and at the 1 we used conditioning techniques, we showed up to find carpet crews on site, the tenants paid out of there own pocket to have new carpets installed and professional painters come in, all so they could retain their good tenant discounts.

Identify equity and purchase it at a discount using a variety of techniques (see my discussion on this on the ROE vs.

A lot of our members are doing fix and flips and could use someone who could help turn up leads from old and expired MLS listings, among other techniques.

When we used to buy houses we would use all different kinds of post card techniques.  

Apparently this is a technique most addicts and squatters will leave for and it works a good percentage of the time.