My point is if you scale too fast you may be setting yourself up for failure.

Important to my wife and I, anyway.I couldn't agree more about the nature of the site and how it seems to emphasize much more heavily the successes than the failures. 

On top of that real estate has a high failure rate anyways.

Failure to perform clause recommended to re-assure sellers?

I'm still scared to make a move in central californIA as I'm not going it alone but bringing my family along for the rode as well so there's is great fear of failure for me

Trying to hold property owners responsible- morally - for society's failure to be able to properly house and care for all of the elderly people in the USA seems misplaced.

Once the documents are signed and the funds transferred, you will have a limited control over what is done to protect your funds, and/or the success or failure of the project.I encourage my investors to read every page of the documents, and have spent hours answering every question that they have brought to me.  

While I would tend to agree with this in most cases, in this case, so long as you send a written letter to the agent/broker explaining the timelines that occurred and that you no longer wish to work with them due to their failure to perform and that you will be finding another agent to work with who is more receptive to your timelines, then I think you are fine going direct to the list agent.

Additionally, I would greatly appreciate any success (or failure) stories about deals done in CT so as to acclimate myself a little more to what exactly I'm getting into. 

The percentage of true owners to folks renting out their properties is close to 50/50 so I've had the opportunity to speak with many people on their successes and failures in renting.