I'm looking for someone who does good work at reasonable prices, shows up, and finishes the job. 

If you're planning on getting another property ASAP and think you could get a deal in a reasonable amount of time, I'd just use the cash.

We've gotten lucky to get closer to $200/door on some, but I would say $150/door is a reasonable basis for offers.

You want someone who can pre-approve you without a property address, for obvious reasons.

Now if you found something just extraordinarily out of order like all the plumbing in the house was actually faulty, or there was foundation damage, or something else that the average person would not be able to identify, then that's a perfectly good reason to utilize that clause or better yet, to try to renegotiate a price with the new information in hand.

The main reason that we cannot agree on a purchase price is because the home owner believes that I am over-estimating the repairs needed to achieve a higher profit in the end.

Those are reasonable.

There is plenty of reason to own both real estate and stocks.  

I'm not going to go into other various reasons but let me know if I could be of any assistance. 

Honestly hadn't considered a fixer for some other reasons but we will look into the Ainsworth spot.