I'm on the Board of Directors of the Rental Owners Association of Lane County (over 1,300+ members representing over 20,000 rental units!). 

Investors should be extremely cautious with Qualified Intermediaries that also represent (and get paid on) replacement property solutions or Qualified Intermediaries that refer clients to their "associates" or "friends" for replacement property solutions so that they can get paid a referral fee or those that actively put replacement property solutions together in order to make money.  

The problem is this time of the year does not have much turn and the units available are not representative of your true competition. 

So another question, if the agent that’s representing the seller, but don’t represent me as the seller.

I also have lots of texts to back up my case that she represented the whale client as being a shared client. 

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For a traditional Heloc at most small banks/CU's, the rate will be variable and will be WSJ Prime + a spread that represents the borrower's credit risk.

A good agent will know the rules and regs for areas they want to sell/represent properties.My 2 cents,Mike

A principal (who is not well versed in contract law) in a transaction can draft their own contract form just like someone accused of murder can represent themselves...and both would be making a grave mistake.

Take for example, while representing buyers in single family transactions, during the negotiation, I ALWAYS ask the sellers to credit the buyer(s) up to 3% of the asking price toward the buyers costs.