Of course the best thing is to get a proper BPO in the beginning!

What ONE buyer will pay for a distressed properly does not necessarily make it what the MARKET will bear.

Do the transaction properly with a title company and a warranty deed.

This is a process most commonly between competing brokers on behalf of their agents discussing issues such as what there a coop fee, who showed the home and when, were there any signs of abandonment or estrangement by either parties and a multitude of other factors that only a fair impartial hearing panel would be used to determine if the rules set out by the Nat' Assoc. of Realtors are properly followed.Close the transaction, get your home sold, and thrreated to sue any Realtors for totious interference if any of them threated to hold up the sale unless you pay them a fee over and above what you have already agreed to in writing.

Owner finance the remaining 6k, ensuring a 100k comp in the neighborhood I am continually working in.4.)

I'm wondering what other people here do and what the proper way to handle this is.

The other responses are merely advising him that his costs will be higher than he expects in the future so he should be socking away the proper amount of cash just in case he needs to replace a roof, ac unit etc.

I see no problem with this if these fees are negotiated and disclosed properly in advance.

After a few months of research and educating myself on wholesaling and the proper way to go about things I finally made my first offer.

You need to ensure that there is still this profit potential left by the time they take their cut of the deal.For the the most part, I don't trust many of these "turn-key rental" companies, but if you can find one with a good track record -- and if you are knowledgeable enough to vet the deal yourself -- it's possible that these returns are accurate.