Behind referral on on-line sources like Next door, Google review, FB marketplace, etc.  

Trying to do my due diligence and research reviews on them before making this expense.  

There are best practices on certain items that provides a guidelines.Commissions are always negotiable like any other services, you can shop around for the best value for money.All depends on the risks that you are willing to take.

This implies that if I had confidence of better than normal appreciation or ways to add value, I would purchase a negative cash flow property.  

Unless you are buying at a significant discount, or are hacking it, or have some other value added strategy or plan.

For existing properties, you must make substantial improvements (equal to the property’s value, excluding land) within 30 months.Ensure the duplex qualifies as an OZ investment and complies with QOF rules.

With record low inventory and sales transactions there's no low hanging fruit.In this market we think the best opportunities are value-add (BRRRR'ish), zoning changes allowing density (ADUs), or seller financing deals (buy a lower rate).

The world values your money at 3 or 4% with no risk. 8 or 10% with moderate risk.

I am in Brent Daniels' TTP Mentorship (which is excellent - HUGE value) and he recommends Batchleads (but not their dialer - for that he prefers Mojo) and I think I should just stick to what he said, but I have serious "shiny object syndrome" - my bad ;)!  

$30k in additional value for $5k invested is a great return.