But they were charging 9% for Agent fees and $14,500 for repairs.

Interested to know where your other investments are too if youre willing to share.As for agents with investor experience, you’ll want someone who understands the buy-and-hold strategy and the local market dynamics.

One of the major overhauls of Dodd-Frank includes to consolidation of regulatory authority between various federal and state agencies, sets up defined areas of responsibility for agencies dealing in areas of consumer protection, not just real estate financing but related financial transactions.

For agents wanting to invest for themselves, serve residential investor clients, and/or to learn more about RE investing through their brokerage, check out Rarebird.

It is illegal for agents to receive kickbacks from Lenders.

I have been a lurker on this thread for ages now, and have read through it repeatedly.  

There are no rules for wholesalers the way there are for agents.

As for agents, I do have a license (and so am trying to navigate the terrain of doing both) though I primarily want to wholesale.

I could clearly see utilizing that for condo-rental property, or possibly vacation rental property even.I had recently discovered the Oregon Economic Analysis office which has some very interesting data.So I looked at the predicted population growth per year for ages 25-64 for 2018-2026 and compared that with the predicted number of housing starts (~steady 23k per year) and came up with a similar timeline of 2022/23 being where the housing starts catch-up. 

Not good for agents and landlords.