While the house flipping I'm doing is more short-term oriented and opportunistic (unique opportunity to collaborate with a friend), with all of the others that I've mentioned here, my focus is on long-term results, and on beating the results I'd get by investing the money in equities (historical rate of return of 7%).For all of these, I'm happy with a 10+ year investment timeframe.So you're suggesting IRR/MIRR, which makes sense. 

And on a practical level, the last thing I want to do is develop the brand as a potential buyer as "hey, that's the name on all of those horrible lowball offers".My point is that I think it can become a more collaborative relationship but it's super hard to develop that when you have zero history with the realtor, zero history of closing on a property, etc. 

I would welcome any introductions from anyone interested in working together and collaborating.

I'm mainly looking for a good communicator comfortable with collaboration. 

I know you know this and just mentioning it to collaborate and help you vet things out.

I look forward to getting feedback from the community and perhaps meeting up for lunch or coffee to collaborate.  

I have a background in management and business planning that I'm looking forward to applying towards some eventual real estate investments, but I find I work best in a collaborative atmosphere where I can get accurate information.

Also i know how important it is to network, so even though i am indeed young, i am always willing to learn and collaborate ideas.

I look forward to collaborating with you all here on this site.

Looking forward to connecting and collaborating with other RE investors.