Our agent helped us write a very strong offer with an escalation clause.

Once you know what to look for in terms of an investment in your market then you can start speaking with lenders about using that 20k to determine what you can afford and then move into actually narrowing down properties and making offers!

I've been looking primarily at deals that offer owner financing or are otherwise open to a creative deal structure.

Isaac, definitely take Lucas up on his offer of a call, you'll learn a ton!

I would like to expend by utilizing investments in my projects and am wondering if sponsering syndications is the way to go and if so how to structure the offering.

They offered to split the payments so I could pay half now and half in 40 days but still even $4K is a lot for me right now.  

It offers you a home and a strategy to grow your investment portfolio.

In my opinion their data isn't significant for finding deals, but when it comes time to present an offer I don't know where you'd get sufficient data to do so other than CoStar.

Would you send over the offer terms in a seller-financing contract or send over the potential returns for seller based on analysis?

If they have $20K in the bank, that would offer additional reassurances of their financial stability.