These skinny deals with nothing left need to be belly to belly.Choices are-1) take a gamble you can do most of the work yourself.

I know many of the investors on this board are honest but for every one of you I can show 5 dirty investors that will use a broker/agent and spit them out.Their is a fine line for a little upfront work to develop a relationship and flat out doing a ton of front end work hoping to get paid on the back end.That isn't a business to me but gambling as a broker/agent.I agree with J Scott that a great buyers agent doesn't always make a great listing agent.

But it's more complicated than simply gambling like how a normal joe would gamble.

Perhaps I could tout the benefits of using an unlicensed offshore servicer (in Nigeria) to do your servicing? 

The offshore ones are even more challenging !!!

If not its a gamble.

.: I don't want to gamble (and wait) on appreciation, all while paying taxes and condo fees out the ***. 4-6% just won't cut it for me.

The whole couch thing was tongue in cheek but boy it sure would be nice for the first week after quitting my day job.There was a good episode on Frontline called The Retirement Gamble that really made me greatfull that I discovered passive income through REI.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement-gamble/

You can also do them for property use, i.e. a church selling land but requiring it not be used for gambling, a liquor store, etc.

Look into the ad budgets of companies like Procter and Gamble, Car Manufactures, Cell Phone Companies, or Insurance Agencies.