Unfortunately she is retired now.

Its worth the money because it saves me time, and money every single time.

Lili here, I am a first-time investor looking for a couple different things:1)  A house hack in or near the downtown area.2) Connections to real estate agents, contractors, etc. to start building a network and deciding on a strategy for my REI (wholesaling, BRRRR, etc.)I am a recent college grad (June 2018) with no debt, around ~$20k in savings, very low expenses, and I travel a good amount, so Airbnb can be an option as well.Any and all advice and recommendations are more than welcome!

They can and often do save deals that fall apart when the borrower doesn't qualify for conventional financing. 

One offer with conventional financing and another higher offer with seller financing.This way he looks at the higher dollar figure and is more appealed to that offer.As suggested - it also helps to provide pros/cons for the seller to do seller financing.He might find it attractive if he is nearing retirement and still looking for an attractive rate of return via the interest rate on the seller financed note.

So I started my own software development company 7 years ago, this allowed me to work from home and stock away a decent savings, but I knew I didn't want that long term, and rentals was always the end goal.

So I started my own software development company 7 years ago, this allowed me to work from home and stock away a decent savings, but I knew I didn't want that long term, and rentals was always the end goal.

I want to have a few multifamily properties to increase my income per door so I can hopefully retire much sooner than later.  

I have been saved from renting to fakes this way.

I’ve been saving for about three years and have about $25,000 saved up.