Offer the ARV minus repairs to the seller and with any luck land a great investment property.

However, I am interested in doing seller financing on some deals.

I have purchased and sold homes with a realtor before but have a new one I'm using as my old one moved away.I found a home I want to buy so I asked my realtor if she could get any information about the current renter Payment history and the existing lease.My realtor came back and said the sellers agent was very short with her and "yelled" at her through email.

Is there any chance to negotiate splitting the cost of the roof with the seller?

I have tried lists from REWW / Realeflow / Datazapp to try and contact motivated sellers, but the vast majority of these prospects have no interest in selling their property or want too much.

An interesting situation came up where one potential buyer proposed an Equity swap to be used as a down payment, where I would take ownership of their property in Waukesha, and then I would seller finance to the buyer the remainder of the balance owed on my sold properties. 

I will follow up once I actually close these properties with a full picture of my experience on the seller side. 

We sold them both, seller financed, in the 1995-2000 time frame for $77,000 and $83,000. 

We are purchasing the home through the seller and her agent, however the seller is in default and has been issued with at least two NOS's.

This is my first direct mail campaign, but I am going to try to market specifically to seller’s.