Make a "ridicloulus" offer and see what comes back.How hard can it be to be your own PM and save the 10% for yourself until you buy a few more and outsource the job?

Talk to a lender to find out what your options are and in the meantime save up as much money as possible.

On the first purchase we made, they took a lot of section 8 tenants to inflate the rents and we ultimately decided some of those tenants were destroying the property so we lowered the rent to attract the right tenants and once we had the bad ones out, we slowly moved the rents back up.

We’ve got tons of compliments during showings and ended up saving about $11k.

In our case we did just that and we also have tenants paying their own garbage which saves us some money.

The seller what’s to sell to save his credit, but doesn’t want to involve the wife ( I don’t blame him) but according to the county she is the sole owner of the house.

Been aggressively saving up my income and been reading up on as much as I can.

You say it's thru 1099s - which could mean working on contract jobs (1099-MISC), drawing money from retirement savings (1099-R) or other things.

I would get yourself a list of capable contractors to back you up or save you time from having to run over to the rental. 

Hello,  Y'all, My mother took over the delinquent tax payments to save the home.