Lawyers like most people want to make as much money, as fast as they can.  

Everything happened so fast and we were under such a tight timeline we didn't really have a whole lot of room to negotiate other than overall purchase price. 

We made our best offer at $245,000, cash, with a fast closing.

The seller just wants to sell FAST?

Hopefully this is a fast process and a small penalty since you weren't building back yet. 

This can include things like learning how to be a real estate investing coach or a fast-track mastermind group.I have heard of organizations out there who want to get you hooked on very expensive education / coaching programs for over CAD10,000 or to use the education as a relationship builder to sell properties/projects. 

I do work a W-2 job but is not enough for me to save fast enough to start in, lets say, house hack or the credit to apply for a loan.

You are destined for success if you keep making decisions or you at least give your chance time to fail fast. 

Doesn't make sense if you have a few properties and they get rented fast but once someone scales and they have say 10 empty units all across town it can get costly to have someone go check on them weekly.

I can't seem to acquire properties like this fast enough. :) Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?