—Nick: I have also gotten told to have a good co-sign and lease so that shouldn’t be to hard.

Hey @Jessica Brewster , Try purchasing a list of absentee property owners.Also, call the bandit signs (aka We Buy Houses on the side of the road), they all have wholesale deals

Also maybe offer $100 signing bonus to incentive someone since it's not exactly done yet.

I ended up winning, by increasing my offer to 152k but had to sign the addendum saying if it didn’t appraise I would have to bring the cash difference.

The appraiser did ask us who the appraisal is for, and we told them that it was to complete an intra-family transaction, and we needed something to establish a tax basis.

The seller is the wife who cannot get her ex-husband in to sign off on the deed.

When the slightest sign of downturn, I will sell.

Just wondering if this is a good sign for buying...Small town, tons of growth in the county....someone just built a 42 unit rent based on income smack dab in the middle of said small town. 

Eventually I bit, and he proposed a note for me to sign, the note was due in July of 2017.

Part II: what are some best practices when just getting started, to keep the whole transaction history for my first property separate so I can easily provide that information to a buyer years down the road?