Always rents faster, rents for more and sells for more.

We are very busy right now, and feel like the broker fee (one months rent) will pay for itself if they can get someone in there much faster than we will be able to. 

Vacation rentals in proven vacation markets (read: not metro markets with volatile STR regulations) allowed me to scale faster than I would have using solely LTR income.

Since you brought up weight-loss products, what is the reputation of such products that do not work as advertised (which is probably 100% of them) - awful lot of complaints and negative reviews.

I know how stressful it is for some of my peers knowing that they have the weight of student loans/debt on their backs while they're trying to get an education.

@Jacob GrahamLeveraging money via loans will allow you to grow faster, just don't get in over your head!

This can also give you faster service in times of need.This is a For Profit business & every revenue stream should have profit attached to it.

LP gets a 8-10% preferred return and the net-of-fee returns are split 50/50 after the fact.2) A simple assignment agreement on a per-deal basis, where the operator provides the loan and then assigns it to the end investor, whereby the operator earns a brokering or servicing fee (the end investor earns the interest rate on the note minus a certain percentage fee, and the operator earns the rest).I'm trying to weight he pros and cons of both, keeping in mind that I value flexibility, discretion in which deals I choose as an operator, and making it super easy for the borrower.

Applicants know they can take the application home, fill it out carefully, and bring it back later, without losing out to some one who happened to see the ad sooner or filled out the application faster. 

First, those areas would be cash cows, and the appreciation would be much large and faster.