@Jared Matson Whether you should flip and sell or sell with financing is entirely up to you, your business model, your market, and your financial goals.

Whether your tolerance for risk allows you to scale to larger purchases, or you'd rather mitigate some of that risk and buy smaller properties is totally up to you, your goals and your comfort level.

Your evaluation will help show everything that you need to make a decision based on your goals. 

But brokers have one goal when they talk to owners: to get you to list your property with them, so they can keep their desk at the brokerage.

My goal is to cut on the amount i work and stay home more with wife and help raise the baby. 

I look forward to learning as much as I can from this site as I progress to my goal of financial freedom.I am an Accountant and I work in Government. 

So if your goal is to create some passive income from REI, I would say do the work to get over the paralysis and execute your original plan.

I feel now is the time to start investing in real estate.My goals are more along the buy and hold lines than flips.

In fact, I've been trying hard to meet 100% as a personal goal.

Depends on your future goals .