The state has numerous cases against agents for not having fees pass through the broker. 

@John Thomson the answer is, in the very basic 'big picture' (skip to last paragraph for small picture), the numerical 'volume' of net migration to your area.

.- There isn't verbiage regarding assignable of contract  - Sales Contract has the wrong Seller's name- Sales Contract is a copy from a local Realtor Board that has the Seller as the Brokerage name- The written offer dollar amount and the numerical dollar amount are different- Sales Contact has one out of the two Seller(s) on the contractI think I'll stop there...anyone else?

The moderators prefer we not dialogue too much in the general forums about local meetups around town to cut down on clutter and help curtail advertising in the general forums.That said, I facilitate a subgroup specifically for newer investors as part of our local real estate investor's association AZREIA.

@Tom Gimer  I know this horse left the barn years ago in our market.. will you guys facilitate this. 

There are numerous threads going into the details of how leveraging multiple properties outperform a single property purchased with all cash.

I was able to initially come in with a cash offer, which helped facilitate, since it's a small commercial property and the 2 vacant units deemed it as distressed to many banks.

Now, this duplex was turn key and had numerous upgrades such as flooring, painting, hot water heaters, roof.

I've worked in the venture capital and private equity world as well getting a close up view of numerous businesses as the grow. 

From what I've read on numerous places, multifamily expenses range from 45-55% of gross income.