I had a buyer this year who wanted to offer list price on a property, I got him $200k off the list price.

it seems like they usually only deal with larger companies that have many accounts to offer

That makes it worthwhile to them to offer huge discounts - becuase they more than make it back.

I agree with a lot of the points that you made and while I know it's late to the party as many have already leveraged the COVID boom into managing others, I feel like a lot of folks will be changing managers this year due to poor performance from under-skilled or stagnant managers who set it and forgot it.I think two tiers of services to offer flexibility to the owner is a good idea and makes sense.A few more questions for discussion...What do you, or anyone else reading on the thread, do when a potential client has a property that needs decor work before listing?

What better inflation fighter than to offer low income housing that these people can sell later and buy something better when they are ready to make a change?

I'm extremely grateful for the guidance, and that someone stepped up to offer this hard-earned knowledge.The only thing I have to bring to the table is like anything else - a consistent effort, willingness to feel like a moron often on the way to becoming an expert, and as close to "balls of steel" as I can muster.

This is no different than an agent charging a seller a 6% listing fee to sell their property because their going to offer 50% of it to an agent that brings them a buyer.What happens if the agent works hard and finds their own tenant or buyer?

In the event that a seller is not willing to offer a compensation to a buyers agent, we can not look at that home, we can ask for closing costs to cover my fee etc.. 

It's helpful to know that downtown might be a tough spot for investment properties right now, while the suburbs seem to offer more opportunities.

We work with builders to offer their New Construction Investment property off market at pre-negotiated investor pricing and incentives.