I am planning on buying a primary residence that I can get as a decent fixer-upper.

I bought a house at a foreclosure auction and am in the process of signing contract and preparing for closing in 30 days. The house is currently occupied by the people that the bank foreclosed on. From your experience...

Investment Info:Large multi-family (5+ units) buy & hold investment.

Also, the difference between buying a 2 unit and a 200 unit will make the answer to this question irrelevant. 

In the years I've been doing REI here, I've never seen the market so lacking of decent buying opportunities.

There doesn't seem to be any incentive to buy when you eventually want to sell.

Couple of things I’d do: have a FaceTime/zoom call with them so you get a chance to meet them and hear them, see if you can get the full name and google the person, I’d prolly even have them do a background check.

I plan on buying more in the future, but likely with financing. 

In other words, a wholesaler needs to find a deal where they can get the property under contract for an amount that is low enough that they can not only cut themselves in on the deal (assignment fee, etc), but also pitch it to an investor who sees enough profit in the deal to be worth it to buy it from the wholesaler.  

im looking for advice on financing a purchase. we were hoping to use as little of our money to buy a house and use the BRRR method.