What % commission split you have with broker is purely negotiable, whether you are a principal, or not.

Is is purely to create a mindset?

So in 1933 Roosevelt took away the gold and made the money purely fiat (for US citizens).

Wont happen again on that door unless they take half the wall with it. 10 X stronger than pure drywall.

The point of my story is that yes, buttons, graphics and colors are cool, but like @Bryan L. mentioned, I also think it is purely a personality thing.

Its no differernt in my mind than paying 40k for a guru course only to figure out your not cut out for real estate and never really do any deals... here you can go into massive credit card debt only to find out RE is not all that its cracked up to be  Oh yea definitely, I'm assuming the individual has already made up his head, has a solid plan, and it's just pure execution.Now that you mention points, I wonder what type of rebate, sign up bonus would some of these cards have?

If you don't have a pot to piss in, the last thing you should do - from a purely financial point of view - is donate 10% of that pot to a church. 

Before a start my diatribe on why cash flow properties are better than BRRR in my opinion I need to clarify that my post did not advocate buying just renovated pure turnkey investments at market value.

@Myka Artis If only our local regulations were that lax...We had to switch from purely nightly rentals to corporate rentals on a handful of units because of our city's changing regulatory environment.

I do not want to invest purely for the tax advantages but i won't lie those are a HUGE reason.