Maybe he is a lot busier these days (market has improved) it may not be worth it to him now.Look at it from his side, however seek out someone who can accomplish what you need with full cooperation and understanding of your goals.

My plan, I would not extend the lease of the current tenant and allow them to seek a new residence by end of school year.

On a side note.... if you change your mentality to look for win- win deals instead of selfishly seeking what you can steam-roll someone for, you will find yourself more successful in the long run. 

Seek list from your county of individuals possibly in distress for example tax delinquent list or code violations.

I am seeking advice from other experienced wholesalers on their initial process as we are learning and I wanted to hear how other investors handle showing the sellers home.

I would like to have some sort of mentor that I can help in exchange for knowledge, and somebody that I can just ask questions to and talk with.I have been seeing across the entire city and suburbs these small road signs that advertise "Real Estate Investor Seeks Apprentice" they are all different, and some of them even make wild promises like "make $10,000 a week while you learn to invest!"

The court order also allows Wisconsin residents that are VPM tenants to terminate their leases with VPM without penalty, and seek financial damages against VPM that resulted from the company’s “prohibited acts and practices.

When you are looking, just be sure to seek out the right neighborhoods, like Shrewsbury st, Tatnuck, WPI area is good too.

If you get it under contract for $155K and seek 100% financing you're probably sunk.

Same boat, but seeking some flips!