@Matt Bell would David maybe know of some experienced flippers in the Montgomery area that I could get in touch with?

I then try and see what finishes the competition has in their rentals and do mine just a touch nicer.

hello Greg  Good to hear from you, I will be heading to Florida right after the holidays and will be looking to purchase another property, I will keep in touch  Thank you                                                             

After a year or two, the purchasing the 2nd property could help snowball my business, build up the reserves, and then the credit line would never need to be touched.  

Please feel free to get in touch, looking forward to meeting you.P.S. we do have a bigger pockets Calgary Facebook group which helps us coordinate our meet ups.

The owner of the house has a seller-finance in place, still owes 135k for property.The owner also has 15k in back taxes on propertyThe owner has a personal loan of 5k for windows, which he wants us to take care of, if possibleHouse needs some touch up work and a new roof within a year, cost ~10kOwner said he will consider a short saleSo I want to minimize the amount of cash I put out for this property.

It is historic but no plans to touch the exterior.

I'm not going to go into all of the details because most of it has been touched upon but first and foremost if an agent can't negotiate his/her own compensation with you what makes you think they will be able to negotiate with your seller/seller's agent?

You 3rd will be better than the 2nd and so on".Anyway, I had stayed in touch with an owner who owned a multi next door to mine.

I was good at networking, but sucked at following up and staying in touch with people I had met and past clients.