My advice would be to write an offer with the fewest possible contingencies - and if you were in Maine, I'd go $5K over asking.

Also, with BRRRR, there are tax write offs and advantages of collecting passive income.

Also talk to a real estate attorney when writing your purchase agreements.

And....for the future, write into your contract property to be delivered vacant if there are tenants in the property. 

I was suggested to write a letter to the other homes and see if anyone responds.

Have them write the offers on your behalf and let them present those offers to the owner.

I used it for my leases, tax time, write offs, etc.

It isnt easy, like any successful business, and the risk is much bigger than just sitting at home writing negative messages like that, but it absolutely does work and will pay off if you do your homework, learn the principles, and apply good judgement. 

Isn’t it ironic that I can write in earlier stories above about increasing sales and prices of SoCal homes, and yet 66,000 Los Angelenos continue to be homeless… Initial Jobless Claims.

Can i just go online and find a promissory note and mortgage template, write it and get it signed with all my stakeholders (lenders), or do I have to find an expert (or is it an attorney) and get it signed/notarized via some state authority?