I recently spoke to some commercial brokers who were receiving flat commissions ($100-$200k) from institutional players to sell large commercial property deals instead of the 3-5% commission that I see for $5-$10m dollar deal size that I typically look at.Can any institutional investors on BP speak to that? 

Whether you are currently active or just an equity player, I would love to have some conversations with you about possible future projects!

Most of the developers I know myself included ( and again just my small circle) I have never seen any of them put a syndication together to fund these.Few reasons  as stated no cash flow.. returns are FAR higher than most apartment deals by a LONG shot.. so you can attract bigger money players and you don't have to go after that 50 to 100k investor.. you go after that 500k to a couple million or more investor.. and usually only one or two money partners so no need for all the brain drain of a syndication and SEC stuff and risk on the operator side..

The labor usually gets paid on those shows, but many times the input players are acting for free (publicity and excitement of TV) and many materials are donated.

It takes a good bit of effort to get a job quoted and most management companies have a pretty high repair limit before they are wiling to do so.Many charge some type of fee to exit the management agreement.I'm sure there are some honest players that do their best for their property owners but I would not want to commit to a business relationship where there were so many counter-incentives for my manager. 

I don't negotiate short sales for a living but one of the key players in the deal that commonly gets forgotten is the mortgage insurer.

He's a bad player in business, not just RE but in his auto business as well.She just made a couple phone calls after meeting with L and her mother informing the PM of L having legal representation.

It seems like a lot of the players here are going after the small stuff :)   Does anyone have any ideas or tips of where to start looking?  

Get boots on the ground and break bread with the players doing business there. 

Sure the best wholesalers make money, but so do the best football players in the world...