My guess  is that you will be their bird dog and will do all of their work to make a fraction of what you could make without them.  

Do you want rental income, bird-dogging, wholesale, flipping?

Since I don't have a lot of my own funds to begin with my plan was to start with assignments (or is bird dogging what I should call it) where I match wholesale homes for sale with potential buyers and just take an assignment fee.

I'll be accompanying him from start to finish on an inspection.  

They will be an excellent resource for contract real estate work, which may include the following activities: bird dogging, referring buyers, showing properties, open houses, broker price opinions, etc.Great Handyman --Someone to take care of the little things that come up on a daily basis.

I live in Pennsylvania, but have visited Myrtle Beach several times and think at a minimum it will become our future snow bird destination, or possibly our future full time residence.  

Newbie in Houston, TX looking for REI mentors for guidance and to be a bird dog in the Houston area.

They have a procedure to make them come in front of them and prove they have just cause and a legal claim to charge you and must produce a contract that states they will do a specified service for a specified price and any change order must be accompanied with a change order signed by you. 

I've worked in architecture and have done bird-dogging for several investors over the years, but haven't had the time to seriously focus on investing... until now!

This is especially due to the influx of snow birds, students (UNCW and CFCC), and young professionals coming to the growing area.