If you have a hot market and multiple qualified applicants, there is no reason to consider paying an agent.

All depends on multiple factors.

We ended up with multiple offers.

To not trust contractors even if family ( I was burned on multiple occasions).

@Corinna Gossner Any tax paying entity - corporation, partnership, trust, LLC or single or multiple tenants can do 1031 exchanges. 

Yes multiple

Being a general contractor and an experienced investor I see stuff from multiple angles and the key component of what you said was he is selling this property in the winter and that's exactly for a reason I've seen this happen many many times.

I'm basing that opinion on the fact that I've wholesaled a property that was on the MLS multiple times and didn't sell for a year.

Virtually wholesaling wise, that's hard to say since you are dealing with multiple state laws.

The biggest WHY is to hopefully have multiple streams of income through cash flow, in order to gain financial independence, to not have to work a 9 to 5.