It's not quite rocket science.

So going around to different agents you are still getting the same quotes with very minor variations.Citizens is expensive and it could go sky rocket. 

It can push sky rocketing valuations in good times and very low valuations in bad times. 

Real estate investing isn't rocket science, and there is no secret magic technique that anyone can teach you.

It isn't rocket science.If you are making offers on listed properties then there is a commission that you can collect as a buyers agent, even if you are the buyer (Some REOs will not let a principal in the transaction collect commission).If it is an off market deal there is no commission involved so nothing to collect.On the end side if you are just assigning then again no commission involved.If you end up selling this retail on the MLS then you are listing it and you will pay some amount of commission as a co-broke and whatever your broker will have as a minimum commission going to the office (In my case I do a reasonable percentage which I get my normal split on).If your broker/team leader is trying to skim some commissions off your off-market deals they are probably not the best people to be working for if you want to wholesale. 

The good thing is that real estate is not rocket science.

What you're paying for is their opinion and ideas, usually they are old strategies under simple concepts, there isn't any rocket science going on. 

@Ben Leybovich  for us investors that grew up in CA... after about 1987 when prices rocketed up doubling in a year or so.

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