I know this is the obvious, whatever you do if there is not enough fat in the deal just give it a miss. 

My worry is that someone just made a mistake and I’m going to have a fat bill come tax time, or this will eventually bite me.

The pygmy goats were my fave.

I was the stocky (fat) bald guy walking around handing out business cards on steroids. 

That takes out the high end flips and the big fat juicy margins I hear about, but it provides us with a comfort level.

I broker deals with my buyer clients making 6 figures per transaction so for me to syndicate the deal has to be really fat on the back end.

So I would say 99% chance you get a big fat ZERO interest.   

I didn’t want it to be too lengthy so I trimmed some fat.  

More than enough to live out the rest of my life “fat FI”.

These "come with the package" and are part of the deal;  I do not get directly compensated for that time investment.However, when you are repairing something that a tenant broke due to abuse, or cleaning their vacant unit because they did not clean it as stipulated in our signed contract,  That does not make any sense.From a tax standpoint, that revenue I receive by doing it myself (and charging the tenant for my time) is taxable revenue, so I don't see where it is "double dipping" (which is what I think the courts sometimes claim).I have so fat avoided this issue by having the tenants sign a "move out charge sheet" that itemizes estimates on damages/repairs made (I apologize for the formatting issues).