I had a little bit of money burning a hole in my pocket, but didn't want to get into a bad deal. 

So I'm speaking from experience, these type of assets tend to burn holes through investors pockets.

I call this type of property a "mom and pop", basically a property with a burned out landlord, no systems, deferred maintenance, and a motivated seller.  

Life will happen and by staying connected it will stoke the fire already burning.  

I cleaned it up, booted the fat slob with the illegal dog, got some good people in there, had two run-ins with the local meth heads that left one in handcuffs and made friends with all the beat cops.  

Linoleum is a wood product that is expensive and difficult to install and not many hard surface installers know how to do it now a days as you don't find it except in commercial installations that require something burn resistant(that's the reason they call it battleship linoleum cause that's one of the main areas you can find it; on a Navy ship.Sorry this went on so long but hopefully this explains things for Bigger Pockets investors.

Follow the buyer and start a new camp fire elsewhere, or focus in like a magnifying glass on the area you've already started a fire in burn in even larger?

@Robert Burns I worked for a brokerage that used Zbuyer, we had good success with it.

If you don't have the time to burn around locating opportunities then I would suggest working with an investor minded agent that can bridge the gap between the retail and investment markets. 

Rather than potentially burn a connection with the low offer, I decided to wait patiently to hear about the closing of the property I liked and the other property for sale.