It's true that you have to commit to keeping the tenant for one year after accepting payment - however, you can evict if they fail to keep up on their rent going forward. 

After a series of phone calls and emails, Veterans in Parking subsequently offered me a seat on their board of directors; which I accepted.

When your offer is accepted then it'll go to underwriting and have appraisal done.

What matters is you don't get so wrapped up (frustrated) if it seems like it's taking too long, and accept a bad deal...then rationalize it to be a good one.Just focus on the deal...and not the time.

Similarly, our lender Morris Hall was incredible with opening doors for us and accepting university stipends.

So, my realtor presented it to me at the price decided by the owner and I accepted.

I was able to get my offer accepted 3 houses, 2 in the colony(75056) and 1 in Carrollton (75006).

Unless you think rates will fall to the point where someone would accept even less cash flow later? 

Due diligence and contingency clauses are your opportunity to back out due to new discoveries that you didn't know about before making/getting an offer accepted (i.e. inspection findings or appraisal issues).

I’ve made, what I thought to be, competitive offers on 4 other places which were not accepted.