That avoids the situation where your money person hamstrings your efforts to get the most money for the property. 

Way too much effort for those returnsDo you really want to deal with 18 tenants?

Hard to compete if you're trying to outspend them, but you can be creative and bust your balls and when you do that that deal, it will fund your creative marketing efforts to increase the size of your funnel.Excited yet?

I hope the "very good price" your getting accounts for the time and effort your going to put into it, or the $$ you'll pay to have someone else do the work.I wouldn't back out, but maybe there is some room for more negotiation.Best of luck!

If you are willing to put in some effort and learning on how to screen tenants, relate to people, and handle a business, you are going to exceed 95% of all PMs out there.

I suspect that a large percentage performed the flip for the learning experience but not by plan; they expected a profit that was not achieved.It would be safest if you realize your first flip could lose money and, if it makes money, the financial compensation likely would not justify the effort and risk.Ideally you would have gain some key knowledge and maybe some skills that could be leveraged on your next flip. 

I easily found the seller's cell numbers and emails online, so I think it may be time for me to simply Circumvent the Listing Agent and contact the sellers directly.What issues might this cause and what could prevent a Mortgage Broker from Circumventing the Listing Agent in effort to deal directly with the sellers?  

All their effort is making that experience better for me and my tenants.

You don't add lending restrictions to ease efforts generally required of a lender, restrictions and covenants should have a risk management basis or element, not necessarily a profit motive, interest is to cover profits over these usual and customary risks, not high rates and then more restrictions.

I know that I should let this thought go because outsourcing saves so much time and effort but every time I pull the report for how much we spend on direct mail marketing it blows me away.