I’m a new investor that is looking for my first deal.I have come across a duplex listed for sale by owner for $135,000.

I’m a new investor that is looking for my first deal.I have come across a duplex listed for sale by owner for $135,000.

That is a pretty small town, assuming it is a good deal which I'm not totally convinced that it is, you might put in some calls to the buyers or buyer's agents of other rental properties in the area or even ones that have recently been listed for rent.

I have an accepted offer on a property that is listed on MLS; I was able to get the seller to agree to significantly discount the property due to it's state of disrepair.

It's a solid deal but I don't have a buyers list, sort of stumbled on to this deal, then shopped it around to real estate agents as a pocket listing and offered a 3% BAC.  

I looked at the numbers, they are pretty accurate, so why is it listed so high? 

I know myself and @David Fortson are both seeking reliable and honest GC's in the DC area to add to our list of contacts for both flips and buy-and-holds. 

usually that agent that first lists it just takes all the pile of offers to the bank, and all are rejected... 

The bank will typically just buy it at the auction if nobody is willing to bid close to market value.Then they'll list it as an REO which opens it up to potential owner-occupants as well as investors.They know what the house is worth and they know we're in a sellers market right now.Unless you're in an area with tons of REO's sitting around it's highly unlikely they will just unload it.

If you mean just go to redfin/zillow and find a killer deal there, or a website listing REOs, to "get rich quick with no money down," ya, that's mostly dead (to the extent that it was ever alive at all).