I also have no issue paying him to be a facilitator in this deal either.

I'm an agent, but really only to facilitate my own deals.

Ultimate Goal in REI: Enable "simple folk" like ourselves to capitalize on global markets previously available only to multi-national corporate strategies by facilitating affordable, high-yielding property purchases in as many countries as possible around the world (currently researching our expansion to Italy).

There are lots of ways to use your cash, credit and knowledge to facilitate a deal and profit.

This was something that I facilitated for a friend not a business deal but somewhere in this scenario could provide room for compensation.

This is an open discussion about non-profits providing or facilitating special needs or specialty housing, yet doing so profitably for those who operate the housing services.

Many programs are available for download (for free) which facilitate this process.

Facilitate something small and easy - that's all you need to do the first year.

It's what I'm most passionate about.I plan on obtaining my license to not only buy my own properties, but to also facilitate other buy and sell transactions.

Otherwise it can get complicated as you really are putting buyers and sellers together, facilitating sales.You need to read your state statutes very carefully word for word as to what requires a real estate license and then don't do those things if you don't have a license.You can be an employee or memebr in a LLC that buys or sells, as a principal, in other words if BAC LLC buys a property and you are a memeber of BAC LLC, you can then be entitled to profits for the work you perform in that LLC.Another way is for you to take an option to buy and then sell your option, this is placing you in a position of havine an interest in the transaction, but those you sell to may have financing issues with this, it also depends on property restrictions or title limitations as beeing seen as sales during a restriction to conveyances, again check and see how these issues are viewed locally.Generally, you can not act as a third party between a buyer and seller and simply arrange or introduce deals and be paid a fee independly as that is a function of a real estate agent/broker.Lastly, it's easy to get a bad reputation amoung Realtors if you're known as a birddog, they will likely see you as unlicensened competiton and expect them to complain and report your activities.