Learn the rules of their game, compete and win that money game, and remake your world how you think it should be.

Creative ways to Minimize Taxes on Winnings?

The top player in the industry is on your list and is currently labeled as "Tier 3" for some strange reason.  

That is the trick now: you  won't win on sales comps, so you have to sell the poor condition of the house.As Andrew mentioned, if you follow the BRRRR stratedy, you are buying heavily discounted hopefully and that is the low hanging fruit that you should protest yourself, normally online - present your closing statement and any pics or repair estimate and get it lowered to purchase price.   

List Source is probably the biggest player in this space, which is easy to use. 

This creates a WIN-WIN Situation and gives the Realtor incentive, to work harder on your behalf.

End result: win (mom) - win (you) - win (house) -win (bank).

You lost some, you win some.

I would not go looking to leverage myself like this but if its a solid win / win why not 

The largest complex to date we have purchased through cold calling is 48 units and we have several others in the 50-200 unit range that we regularly keep in contact with.Lesson #5: Perseverance will always win.