Give the other side 3 options which all favor you and you are happy to accept.

If you are using financing from a bank, they may only accept title policies from certain title companies.

in Huntsville, AL there are multiple offers on everything, if its not sold yet, its either land or the sellers are awful and difficult, or the buyers are awful and difficult- it can go both ways: someone goes under contract and submits 1,000 request for repairs OR a seller says they wanna sell, they don't and don't accept any offer.

An increase in family size is a perfectly acceptable reason to purchase a new primary residence for 5% down without waiting the 12 months.

Most buyers would accept that. 

They typically weeks out with appointments in normal times.While the “state” may allow online notaries, that doesn’t mean the title company/insurer or seller (in the case of an REO) will accept them.

@Scott Pollock it's actually within FHA acceptable guidelines to have a 2nd fha loan if your situation has changed unexpectedly as long as the new subject property is 100 miles away from your current fha primary home.

The details all depend on what is acceptable to both you and the seller.

She was glad to help and offered the property at the buyer's lowest acceptable offer, but I get the feeling that she believes that I'd use her as my buyer representation. 

Any strategies or tips for persuading off-market sellers to accept bank financing?