Many investors will use the same items in each house and you just adjust your list for the size sqft house you work on.

After doing a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA), I told him he could list it for $150k, but I could get him an offer of $145k by the end of the day.

@Thomas Shepard, @Brandon VanderfordWe politely disagree with your opinions.Ask any attorney about contracts and they will usually tell you the longer the better.Looking at it another way, if you took your local real estate board listing contracts and expanded the font size from 6-point to 12-point and made it letter-sized, how many pages would it be?

But, its when you list that you should be looking to save. 

I was wondering if say it was listed for 200 and I put 20% down the remaining about financed would be $160k.

This might not sound that important as a lot of people assume you can just get what you want when you want, but when the market is heavily favoring sellers (as is likely the case coming up with the rates dropping) it becomes critical to have that competitive edge.Not to spill it all out here on the forums, but for example, a good listing agent is going to vet the buyers when they have a stack of offers. 

You will have to create listings on the various platforms.You will have to find multiple vendors for repairsYou will have to have cleaners.

Considering long-term rental as a better option, I listed the property, but after three months on the market and only receiving low offers, I'm reevaluating.

The list goes on a lot of DIY.

I use ownerrez for my listing website and ownerrez offers insurance to the guests on my behalf.