We do not change your fees at any point during the loan procurement process after the fees have been disclosed to you.

See the items below (sorry copy and paste seems to have colored text in a weird way I can't fix):https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_dis...Noted at: 17708.03."...activities of a foreign limited liability company that do not constitute transacting intrastate business in this state include all of the following:(1) Maintaining or defending any action or suit or any administrative or arbitration proceeding, or effecting the settlement of those, or the settlement of claims or disputes.(2) Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its members or managers.(3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions.(4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the limited liability company’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities.(5) Selling through independent contractors.(6) Soliciting or procuring orders, whether by mail or electronic means or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.(7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, evidences of indebtedness, mortgages, liens, or security interests in real or personal property.(8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting, or maintaining property so acquired.(9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 180 days and is not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of a like nature.(10) Transacting business in interstate commerce.It also states in the section following the above excluded items:(c) Without excluding other activities that may not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article, a foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state merely because its subsidiary transacts intrastate business in this state, or merely because of its status as any one or more of the following:(1) A shareholder of a domestic corporation.(2) A shareholder of a foreign corporation transacting intrastate business.(3) A limited partner of a foreign limited partnership transacting intrastate business.(4) A limited partner of a domestic limited partnership.(5) A member or manager of a foreign limited liability company transacting intrastate business.(6) A member or manager of a domestic limited liability company.

My short term goals are to make bids in the areas that I have conducted rent surveys in near downtown Denver, with the objective of procuring 3 properties by the end of the year (my second property purchase is planned to be a Duplex and I plan to live in half of it).

I was happy to give up 50% ownership knowing that my guys that were procuring rehabbing and handling the day to day of tenants were my partners.

I don't think that would be necessary to procuring a good agent honestly and would just be an unneeded cost.

However, I would anticipate that if you limit the quotes that you actually procure from contractors to the homes that you actually put under contract and have an intention to buy you may have already solved your own problem. 

@Brian Adams Thanks for the info procuring larger apartment complexes.How much harder is it to build a new complex in a market where the demand for apartments is very high and the rents keep going up very fast.In my suburb, there are three 100+ unit complexes being built, that I know of.  2 of the complexes were recently approved due to the vacant property not being developed for a while and the land being rezoned to comply.  

If  so you can include in purchase price or terms to make the deal sweeter & procure that buyer.

It basically says that if the property is sold to another person within XXX days and the Buyer was originally introduced to the home by the Agent or the Agent was the "procuring cause" then the Agent should be paid a commission.The right thing to do is to work through the Agent.

Many charge a cancellation fee to reimburse for the money outlay in advertising if you cancel within the 1st so many days/months of an agreement and it's quite common to see cancellation fees after a tenant has been procured.