The agent can get you access to the property, and submit the offers for you.

look at what your non-paying tenants have submitted. 

Now we have a GC that we have developed a relationship with who will walk through and write an estimate for us before we submit an offer to make sure everything lines up.

If your name or entity is on the submitted contract, THAT is who HUD will sell to...

My approach, assuming the lease language is silent would be to require them submit an application and get his mother approved.

Some of the more recent online RE schools seem to do more video lectures, which might be great for some, but not so much for me. 

From the time we finally got the p&l from the seller and submitted the file it took 3 days to get the loan approved.  

I've been fishing through you tube videos, blogs, articles, and audio books, you name it.

There are a million tips and be sure to listen to the podcast if you don't already but my biggest piece of advice, if you do decide to start making offers, is to make sure that any offer you submit allows you to get out of the deal for pretty much any reason.

As well as the videos on youtube.