Collect your fee when the transaction closes.5. 

Tax structuring and LLC advice you can get for a paid fee too.

That's not worth 15% of the job.Another thing to consider is that some managers will charge low management fees and then add maintenance fees to bring in more income, while others charge high, all-inclusive management fees.

Large syndication company, higher fees than most other syndicators.

More likely, he is hoping to use the extra time to collect more rents and thus more fees to generate the funds to pay his owner clients:(

I’m not sure who paid legal fees but they must have been significant. 

Quote from @Sami Gren: I start by making the original tenant fill out a form requesting to add a new renter, and they pay me a $50 processing fee (I charge a $50 fee any time I make changes to an existing lease). 

Quote from @Patrick M Nichols: Cogo is a total scam... lots of fees on the front end.

The first few times, I didn't charge a late fee.

They will take the permit fee and send an inspector that will provide some assurance that the work was performed correctly.