They can negotiate their fee with you and the seller to ensure they're compensated for the work they are doing.~ Lindsey

They are really pre-paying expenses.Maintenance issues, taxes, and insurance expenses are all expected things - and frankly they are expected to increase every year to the point I actually over fund my T&I account by about 10% to compensate for those increases.So if we turn to rent, yes, someone can be late on their rent.  

I agree with you that if you are raising capital, you need to have other responsibilities in the deal, and you can't  get compensated for raising capital unless you have broker deal license.It can work if the sponsor who is running the deal is qualified, but unfortunately, people who purely raise capital can't vet a sponsor.Caution: If you're going to raise money for someone else's deal, have a conversation with a securities attorney.

Otherwise, older properties and those with a lot of deferred maintenance will require a lot of attention from a property manager that isn't compensated. 

So they should be justly and appropriately compensated.

Another option would be to talk with the neighbors and let them know you are scheduled to have your own well drilled and could you compensate them until your’s completed???

I have already seen the new forms/addendums that will be used here in Arizona, the common one for this will be the Seller Compensation Addendum.The one thing that might happen in your discount buyer agent scenario is you might get a buyers agent who agrees to a lower commission and then the listing agent is offering a co-broke that is higher than he agreed to, well now that buyers agent will only be able to get paid the lower amount he agreed to and the listing agent will keep the remainder, so listing agents could end up getting paid more.As far as your question on what to pay an agent, I view it similarly to hiring an attorney, there are discount attorney's and they might be okay for some people in some circumstances, or if you know the proper procedures and deadlines then maybe you do it on your own without an attorney.

This means the plaintiff and their counsel only gets compensated if there is a settlement/jury award that gets paid out.

Figures out a lot of my tenants are quite handy and more then happy to upgrade the place on their own with fair compensation.

Not always, but generally the groups that are charging 3%+ acq fees and loan guarantee fees are primarily compensated to transact QUANTITY not quality.