Pretty powerful tool, but you need to be setup by a realtor.

Is this a one page word doc, an ebook, power point presentation?

It got to the point where I put my office phone on call forwarding and I was cruising in my boat at the lake.

I'm in pretty much the same boat you are Justin.I just ended up taking courses to get my real estate license and I think that route was awesome as I had a commercial broker and investor as my instructor, taught me tons!

So, again, the idea that mortgage investing is going away or somehow someone missed the 'boat', seems a bit counterintuitive to the hundreds of years the concept has been around.Having a local niche will be the best thing you can do as a 'street level' investor.

I found a distressed property for sale.The owner is in a nursing home and the daughter that has power of attorney wants to sell the property and put the money in the owner’s estate.

Thanks @Brianna Schmidt for the mention.Garth,1) renegotiate the deal - get it for $3K instead and mention the liens as leverage (mention $2K as starting point and then go no more than $3K)2) once you have it under contract, get Power of Attorney from seller so you can negotiate with the lien holders in his behalf3) negotiate with the lien holders (the 8 liens totaling $3K).

Biggest challenge was that initially the home did not have main power connected from city.

And when rates were recently so low, everyone had the purchasing power to just get that second one so this gets glossed over. 

It could be something simple like an outlet not working or worse like nothing works and there is a gas leak.I just bought a triplex where the power was shut off because the meters were removed.