Any transactions you will do as a realtor you will be doing them on BEHALF of your broker not you as the realtor. 

Growth is best served TRANSACTING properties to HARVEST appreciation/equitable gains for redeployment of those gains (better know as PYRAMIDING). 

Although I probably get killed on transaction fees which is part of why I am not pulling the trigger (along with lack of time to execute well).There are games you can play for increasing your returns in the stock market (sector rotations, rebalancing, being a good company picker) but you lack operational control. 

Assessing brokers based on their transaction history and success in the market carries more weight than simply focusing on the highest price offered.

The ways involve a combination of undefined tech innovation and customer willingness to engage in unconventional transaction methods.There is options now, today, for buyers/sellers to transact real estate for 1% and less of the total transaction $. 

You can do a subject to transaction but that is not legally assuming the loan.the banks got rid of assumable mortgage long time ago. 

Not everyone has the same priorities - some care about interest rates the most, other care about the points the most, getting the most leverage, closing timeline, reputation, smoothness of the transaction, etc. 

I talked to 2 smaller syndications, both were seeking investors in apartment buildings, one was in Michigan near the Indiana border.

Tips or tricks that would help make transactions go smoother.

Doing a cross-check on that gives you more room to relatively negotiate.