With that being said, I implemented a ton of systems to streamline and automate which took a lot of research and months to procure and property management rates for STR is much higher and I wanted to avoid that.I would encourage you to consider self-managing.

I'm not a personal home and auto agent, I live in the world of commercial insurance procurement and risk management.  

We just procured a 4 unit property for one of our clients that same way, owner wanted out but didn't want the hassle of marketing it.Best of luck in your endevours!

We procure vendors periodically throughout the year and several vendors compete for our business as it gives them residual work throughout the year without advertising for new business.

.), the procurement of your mailing list(s), the printing of your pieces, the addressing & postage, and mailing.No wonder you want to take a long nap if you try to do all that yourself!

I was thinking of using 99designs.com for a logo we would like to procure for our new building business.

You'd have to be more detailed.And yes, most listing agreements will call for the agent to colect a percentage of any forfeited deposit-because a deposit is only forfeited when a buyer was procured/under contract, and then defaulted.

It is unethical to tell the seller you will make their payments if you can't do it because some external factor causes you to procure your own financing.

We use several sources including list source for list procurement.  

Being from the Bay area, you might not be all that familiar with how a farmer goes about obtaining either of those products, so let's just say they come from the same source, but involve very different methods of procurement.