@Lorien Rollins what model do you use?

I am interior designer and home re-modeler.

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My company does the following:• Free and simple MLO Licensing (22 hours online or in person and you choose your schedule)• Mortgage team to handle the backend (meaning, no structuring, underwriting or processing loans) • Competitive mortgage rates backed a company with 20+ years in the business• Downline revenue stream on the lending side (similar to EXP model.)• They do not have to change brokeragesIn my mind, there aren't many cons to this.

That’s my job, to represent my client’s best interests, negotiate to help them best achieve their goals, abiding by all the laws, Fair Housing and Code of Ethics along the way.If someone doesn’t want to sign an agreement with me, they are free to consider another Realtor® who has a different business model and practices, or even go forth unrepresented.  

Wall Street has proven their model of stability in the residential RE market post-crash, and if there is another black swan event like 2008/09 there will be a ridiculous amount of competition from large institutions. 

His new business model is basically based on him helping people flip houses and he’ll help maximize their profits so if this got out that he screwed me out of the deal if made and brought to him it’s Ruin his credibility.

And while there IS free training sessions at KW, a lot of the good stuff costs money and is why their business model is so successful.Good luck with whatever you decide and I hope my points gave you some more to think about and to look into more options than simply those two.

His reasons were: a) he can borrow capital improvement budget, thereby not diluting LP returns and b) he could not underwrite yield maintenance.He continued to imply that his business model will remain short term holds (under 5 years) so this debt works for him and is better than fixed rate.My question to this community: would you still be willing to invest with an operator taking out floating rate debt in today's world?

Definitely depends on lots of factors - I would strongly suggest learning how to do basic modeling/underwriting and projecting the cash flows out in different scenarios