I like the idea of shared employee, so I hire someone as weekend staff, they hve regular jobs but needs the extra boost for that bag she likes at the department store, this helps out an individual and is cheap, extra income is always good, they also tend to help and go out of their way for you.

It seems like a mixed bag of pros and cons. 

At that point we bowed out of the program.When the tenants moved out (with no written notice of course..and no rent for that month) they claimed no damages,  ignoring the 24 bags of garbage, the three broken appliances, the broken furniture and the unplugged but still half filled chest freezer (gag) of food they left behind (poor people tend to save EVERYTHING even broken stuff).The irony of these poor folks with their adult daughters who appeared to produce children with anyone they dated and no one seemed to question six grand children with six different last names is that mom and dad were supposedly very active in their church. 

If they require a minimum purchase to rent the machine just buy the minimum, say 20 bags of insulation, and return what you don't use.

Your years of experience as a real estate professional and getting the best price for sellers is of no use to sellers who are about to lose their property and can't find their way out of a paper bag. 

Copper thieves are usually meth addicts out to make a quick rip to get a bag of meth.

Its kind of a mixed bag.

I was bagging groceries for 1.83 an hour and a checker made 9 dollars an hour I knew at that point commission is the only way to scale for someone like me who had sales skills but did not want to grind out a degree in collage..

And  you need to have your bag of cash in hand.

I think most people's hang up with it is that a wholesaler has no fiduciary responsibility to anyone in the transaction and there is no governing body out there making sure wholesalers aren't operating like complete scum bags.