Any helpful advice that you are willing to offer?

Not commenting as to whether any of them have something of value to offer ...

It seems to me that I have the right to offer to buy any personal property I want from the seller.  

I was going to offer the bank $5,000 for it, a discount of 80% from  listed price.

I'm assuming, other than that, you are an employee with the non-profit, a piece worker, or an unlicensed comtractor, at least in CA laws.Anyway, setting that aside, the hard truth is, it is very hard for investors to trust someone who has only experience to offer, track record or not.

The best way to get started with someone like that is to offer to go out and find ("birddog") a few leads for them with the agreement that you'll split the proceeds 50/50 on any deals YOU find that they then help you to land.Yes, finding the motivated sellers is THE hardest part, and it's an even bigger challenge if you have no marketing budget for paid advertising.  

Stay engaged and try and consume as much information BP has to offer.

My grandpa started it bought the rights to a certain kit for a friend and they never did anything with it and when my grandpa died it went to my grandma's name and she has tried to offer it to people but they never take it.

Obviously you have to have the cash to offer this.

I also just recently upgraded to Pro and want to take advantage of all this great site has to offer in hopes of getting my RE investment activities moving at warp speed.