Hey BP community, my wife and I have a house under contract as buyers and was wondering if it is acceptable to ask our real estate agent to contribute a percentage/certain ammount of his commission torwards closing costs?

So, why not just borrow as much of a percentage as they will allow from the outset?...

However, as @Andres Verney suggested, if you get a percentage off of other people's rentals, and roll that into your own, that could help you on your way and allow you to minimize the expenses on your own rentals.

In time, you may find your best deals come from properties where previous investors paid way too much and failed.PS:  It's a personal crusade of mine, but don't feel like you have to pay percentage-based fees for work that bears zero correlation with asset value.  

If you are looking to be a VA I can pay you a percentage of each Deal we close. let me know if you would be interested. 

You'll find a much higher percentage of motivated sellers that way compared to new FSBO's and then you can mail or call directly to them.

Then separately, he calculates a percentage of the loan amount for CC. 

After renovations they took out a fixed rate mortgage at a good rate (not sure of exact percentage) for 82k.

Once it's done we'll be all in for around $600,000 with gross rents projected at $13,000 and everything except the subfloor, studs and roof will be brand new.This post is long enough without getting into actual percentages etc on each project but as you can see they vary...I look at it like my old 401k where I tried different options of risk...some had a better return than others.  

So if I needed the 125 but they don't value it at that much I'm in trouble Do they only lend up to a certain percentage of the value of the house Thank you for any help.