I feel like i gotta get straight to the homeowners, who have a problem that I can help with.  

Plus I would handle maintenance and repairs, etc.Now, I feel like I'm about as low risk of a buyer as possible for the area, but is it safer for her to do something like this with me than to give me a straight mortgage?

I'm self employed, so getting a mortgage isn't going to be completely straight forward for us, so we need all the help we can get!

.- Yes I will pay buyers agent if I go the FSBO route- I will hold a open house and planning to get one of those PODS thing to store the clutter (and possible hire a staging company)- I thought the HOA docs goes straight from the HOA.

I've been requesting information about what happened with that tenant for nearly 5 months now, and have not received a straight answer from Elite.There was then a long delay in placing tenants.

Some in our area have had success with REO auctions although I am not aware of any courses available, however, each auction platform has its' own process which they make known and the rest of the process is fairly straight forward auction protocol.

He seems like a straight shooter, good ol' boy.

Would you suggest going straight to a lender or use a broker then?

I have a simple one page Contract and it's pretty straight forward, should I send it to the seller to review before we both sign?

Things such as sewer and roof are usually pretty straight forward to repair so I would say don't let those deter you.