If the price is right, people will buy just about anything, but the key is, will the price be lucrative enough to compensate for the location.

Plus you need to get compensated for your time, above and beyond the risk you're taking as an investor.

You need to be very careful about active (non passive) income going through an LLC because of the 15.3% self-employment tax on income you take.You may want to consider an S Corp or an LLC taxed as an S Corp if you want to take dividends as part of your compensation (dividends not subject to 15.3% self employment tax).I've been where you at, I changed my companies tax structure to avoid the very things your dealing with.

The money man is often the most important guy in the deal and should be well compensated for taking that risk.

Here is the disconnect that OH Realtor might take issue to and many home sellers faced with this request---deferring payment for 12 months kills the cash flow if the home seller has an existing lien on the property he is trying to sell (not only will he/she not receive PITI payment, but they will have to go into pocket to pay the same for a year).This strategy has some legs if the property being sold is mortgage free, but a word of caution to home sellers thinking of adopting this approach---build enough in your asking price to compensate for the lost opportunity the cashflow you are deferring would have created.

That being said, the title company must have to charge higher fees to compensate for the negotiating time.

I'll make the calls you referenced.My current prop mgmt company is RE investor owned - so as mentioned in other posts, some investors focus on their own properties first...its only natural but not fair since they are getting compensated. 

However, if you need the funds for your deal and you are well compensated why worry about what the other guy is making?

If the situtation occurs on flip number one where we lose $20k, he feels that he should make that money back off of the next flip before any compensation is distributed.

In lending there are compensating factors, if a borrower is weak in one area they might make up the deficiency in another area, say you only have owner experience in 3 SFDs, but your net worth is twice the purchase price, that will probably fly if everything else is decent.You can get creative, you can use seller financing, but unless the seller is family, most all investors who own multis are not going to be walking away taking a note with 5% down or doing some contract, generally there will be some real money involved.