. :)Hi Michael,I've spent a countless hours researching this (including reading all your cost seg related posts) as I'm in the exact similar situation and have talked to 2 CPAs and gotten contradictory feedback.

I have a background and education in Construction Engineering and worked in commercial construction for the better part of a decade while I was investing in residential real estate on the side.I've been in brokerage as a real estate advisor for the past 4+ years full time and I specialize in 2-4 unit residential multifamily which accounts for half of what I do (about 2 or 3 multifamily deals a month) and the other half consist of single family homes and condos.I grew up in San Diego and its all I know, I got my undergrad in Construction Engineering and Graduate degree in Business locally also.I am a big fan of starting off investing locally with low money down and that is how I personally started myself...I read a ton of books and listened to countless hours of podcasts but all the magic happened when I stopped reading and listening and started taking action.Welcome and feel free to send me a private message if you want to chat.

I buy directly from the owner as I don't spend countless weeks trying to make retail MLS deals into wholesale deals.

But that fact that every agent I know always starts at 6% seems a bit odd, and for the brief period I was a licensed agent, the fact that my brokerage based their commission splits and amounts due on the 6% commission (even if I negotiated a lower split with my clients) pretty much proves the case and the reason it was settled is because the NAR knows there was countless evidence to show a broad collusion.But, I think it is about time that buyers pay for their own representatives.  

.; many RE investors have comparatively longer time horizons, and I would assume that most RE investors have a lower tolerance for risk).I'm a RE investor, and don't have any crypto, but I have plenty of friends who hold a lot of crypto, and we've discussed crypto endlessly...At the risk of sounding like a luddite, even after years of discussions and reading countless articles, I still don't feel like I have a good understanding of crypto.  ...and frankly, I'm skeptical of people who claim to have a thorough understanding of it (yet, there are no shortage of self-proclaimed "experts" who describe crypto with the confidence of someone predicting a sunrise!)

They can also refuse to move out and cause countless other issues, as some tenants do.

This of course doesn't include the countless of phone calls we get.. you know what?

I have watched countless Clint videos and sat through the webinars.

I have helped countless people on BiggerPockets to invest internationally and in Mexico by sharing my knowledge and experience over the last several years.

It’s possible I did a poor job of explaining this, this isn’t really a service for investors per se’ in fact I would probably in an ideal enjoy doing this more for primary home buyers, this to me is an alternative to the 2.5% commission model, you cut out the most time consuming and often in my opinion least valuable part of the job which is showing people around and opening cabinets and seeing if they are soft close or not lol (I presume in this new world there will be more open house, more showings by listing agents, possibly more services that allow buyers to show themselves houses like the Redfin does on some of its listing) because of that plus the guarantee of getting at least something for your time allows you to theoretically charge much less while still providing the important parts of the job, like you should consider this area, let’s go over this home inspection repost, here’s how we should craft an offer etc, even spending time explaining rent vs buy calculation and personal finance etc, plus the being able to be paid regardless of your advice, I’ve had countless clients who has just a myriad of bad ideas I’ve talked out of, but of course you don’t get paid for that in this commission structure.