You focus on what is the maximum you can spend to make money...and don't negotiate (rationalize) against yourself after you found that number.Second, whether you are the buyer or the seller, you focus on what you need financially first. 

Is the seller interested in financing them?

Start studying as much information as you can about real estate investing.Step 5: Figure out how to live off W (less then you earn)Step 6: Open a savings account and put your savings into it (X+Y+Z)-W= S (Savings)Step 7: Offer to help another real estate investor do anything they need in return for mentoring you.Step 8: Listen to positive people daily who are motivating.

Both seller & buyer were thrilled.

- How do I go about offering a lower price to the seller than what is being asked? 

I requested that repairs be made before closing that would be a long term fix to the foundation issues.At first, the seller tried to pull a fast one on me and push through minor "band-aid" level repairs instead of legitimate long term fixes while feigning ignorance.

The second option is seller financing but I'm not sure how exactly that process works.

Seller is asking 107K for four properties.

and one guy said he wanted to buy and actually asker to finance 15k. smh. seller wasn't gonna wait for 9k. one of the buyers was a real estate agent. and he was just coming to look for his out of state buyers cuz he said it was something they may be interested in. but after coming. he said something about a non profit had bought it prior to my seller owning it. and something about the next buyer not being about to sell it for too much because of that. which i have never heard of before. have u

What if my motived seller has a realtor involved how would I go about buying the property?