The apartment complexes, property managers, and landlords pay in any case that I am the procuring cause of their new tenant and they have previously agreed to pay agents. 

Im interested in procuring a non recourse loan for commercial investment purpose.

I have put off beginning my procuring rental properties until I retire from the military, as we plan to move out of state.

You find the property and do the leg workOR try procuring private money.

We also charge a percentage of the 1st month's rent to procure a tenant.

You are the agent procuring sale, and you get your portion of the commission.

One problem you are going to run into now is if you had your cousin go see the property and he or she saw it with the listing agent, the listing agent now has procuring cause, with you as their client, to the commission on the buyer's side whether you choose to use another agent or not.

I’m a veteran, so I used a VA loan to procure my mortgage.

I can afford to put 20% down and get a conventional loan, but should I really be considering an FHA Loan and putting something like 5% down and using the other 15% towards procuring another investment property?  

He also took it upon himself to repair some old equipment for us (parts procured on Amazon) that we were ready to dump as useless & worn out.