We track all our metrics daily to ensure that our performance is a cut above the rest - so when investors have specific questions (and all investors should) about occupancy, maintenance, lease terms, taxes, long-term capex, rehab details, move out costs, or future projections, we have that info at the tip of our fingers. 

There are tradeoffs to everything.It's really not a cut and dry answer since a lot of the deciding variables are missing.

Yes the mortgage broker takes a cut of the pie....but typically the rates and loan products they are originating are being done at a larger discount than you could get, so their fees are outweighed by the discount you get using them.

One of the issues is that some loans can acutely be called is the property changes ownership, which some contracts will state includes transferring title to an LLC.

Last time someone asked me to take a cut on a buy side transaction I told them they could choose to pay me my hourly consulting fee instead out of their pocket instead of the seller paying me my commission.

OH turns out the home is in foreclosure and the payoff is 208k.. so our would be wholesaler kind of messed this up. the never checked to see how much the lady acutally owed LOL..

Sure, a 30K property is not worth dealing with to many agents where the commission is $900 before the broker takes a cut.

@John Thedford if structured correctly (with tolerable levels of risk in mind) they can be a good solution for sellers and buyers - but there needs to be systems in place to try to mitigate risk at all levels - and the truth is that a lease option really isn't the best solution for everyone.I'm acutely aware that I'm usually everyone's plan B, and I'm okay with that.

Someone has to write checks, that someone should have a cut off as to check signing authority, like $500 or $1,000 at which point consent is required by the other. 

I was later educated on how they all work together to get a cut of the deal.