Total expenses including staging, real estate commissions, concessions is $78,500, for a taxable profit of $19.500!

My mentor / business partner who is showing me the ropes in RE is starting his own property management business after being in the real estate game for 13 years.He is offering me a job in said property management business as an on-call maintenance person, and also said he can pay me to do yellow letters for him (I currently send out a lot of them for my own investing purposes).He said he can either pay me for each letter, or a 10-15% commission on income from any leads I generate (so if I land him a property that he makes $150/mo on, I would make $15-$22.50/mo on each property. 20 properties = $300-$450 / mo total).Either way, he will pay for all the material and postage- so I'll just be taking care of the rest (printing, packing, sending).

Real estate agents “list” properties and charge you a commission to sell it.

It will earn you commissions but it will also show you how to buy houses that are not selling through regular marketing as described in the article above.

My company let's me put my commission toward my deal.

How did you work out compensation, did you pay per hour, or did they get a commission of sorts?

Our best deals were brought to us by bird dogs.I always look at establishing relationships with a few bird dogs in each town we are looking at buying in.Once they know your criteria and that you have the capacity to buy quiet a few houses your phone wont stop ringing.We pay a $1,000 them commission whenever we buy something.Thanks.

I'm not sure on this, but I assume you can be your own realtor and keep you commissions.

I can see it occassionally generating some income as commission, but would it negatively affect me as someone that wants to buy discounted investment properties?

What if no commission was paid on the sale?