if you did inspections of the property during your purchase due diligence, you will probably have a list of deferred maintenance items...you could offer to fix some things or do some improvements, providing that they pencil out for you.

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@Casey Maib let me loop you in on this conversation.

You need some other due diligence items along the way after they approve your deal like inspections, surveys etc.

Financing appeal to seller is usually something like cash>conventional with large down> VA loan> conventional with small down> FHAThe best way to make an offer is to just start the conversation, send a letter with your intentions or just an offer.

Phone conversation lead to showings roughly 50% of the time.I'd like to find a cost-effective way to hand this process over to someone else.

I am factoring 25% -30% of gross rent for those two items.

Whenever we have reported an issue to the property management company that he used, he would cut them out of the conversation, and insist on using his own handyman, etc. 

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I see conversations all over BP talking about cash flow and it gets very misleading and confusing.