Thus, if I acquire at a higher price, my purchase price would raise the average but the impact would be smaller than if they were using my purchase price as the valuation. 

You need to find out if there is a way to acquire or purchase lists of buyers in your area, possibly from your local tax records to find out all home sales and then try to find the investors in that list. 

Analyzing, negotiating for, acquiring, and managing positive cash flow properties is what I am the market for.

My focus is mainly rental properties but I’m also interested in flips to acquire more capital to buy more rentals.

Oregon has a very easy LLC forming process, my question is, if I form an LLC to begin the application process to acquire a loan, will my personal taxes be negatively affected this year?

We have been submitting offers like crazy and once accepted before the LLC is done, can the property be absorbed into that if acquired prior to starting the LLC?  

One is a SFR, which was financed traditionally through a bank, and the second was a fix n flip that I provided a hard money loan.I want to continue on acquiring SFR, and have obviously heard of the creative financing options there are such as hard money, seller carry backs, and brokers.My questions are surrounding the broker deals.

The market determines what a property will likely sell for.2) How do you know you can acquire the property for 69k?

How does it work and how do acquire these properties?

With that said you have to ability to acquire more rental properties and feed the system you have created with your PM.