I planned on getting started in 2020 but then Covid hit so I would like to get some feedback from the community to begin networking and building a team and get the ball rolling with hopes to purchase my first investment within the next 2 months.

It sounds like the Seller has negotiation fatigue honestly and just wants to close and move on at this point, so they're playing hard ball a bit to get you to the closing table.

I planned on getting started in 2020 but then Covid hit so I would like to get some feedback from the community to begin networking and building a team and get the ball rolling with hopes to purchase my first investment within the next 2 months.

I am looking to get the ball rolling to buy into my first investment property through the house hack method with an FHA loan.

With that being said, if he were to give me the opportunity to take it over what are my first steps to get the ball rolling and get comfortable?

Let them deal with it.This is part of the solution but if I exercise it without a bit of pre-work,  leaves me with an abandon home on my property and with Covid slow courts it may take months to extinguish her rights under the lease and then go through the abandonment process for the home to get title so we can get a permit to haul it off to the dump. 

Once you have the money and ready to exercise your option to purchase first try to talk to seller to see if they would be open to owner finance it for you with that 20 percent down since you will have shown them that you are a responsible renter.

I always get the ball rolling on anyone who is ready around month 4.5/5 so we can knock out appraisal, underwriting, title, etc ahead of time and fund the deal right around that 6 month mark. 

(ball park) practice running comps.

Don’t feel too bad i had similar expectations starting out my realtor pretty much just sets up my MLS searches and If i find something she inquires and makes offer but now because we have a relationship and we have made several sales together she respects my judgement and makes any offer even low balls which I don’t do often but I have to admit I have done so once in a while..