You can have the best location, lowest commission/closing costs, management, financial backing, reputation, etc., but without customers you're not going to do very well.I do not recommend lowering your commission.

When I buy investment properties, I will (1) use the commission (cash) for repairs or (2) subtract the commission from the sales price (hello, tax free!).

I would guess the Learning Annex gets some sort of commission off sales and they knew no one would want to listen a "no name" sale his product.After this incident, we decided this was probably not a learning event, but a marketing event and therefore did not go the actual event.

How much commission should your RE Agent take for your REO transaction with the bank?

As an agent, I hope to find them a place and earn commission.

Dan, Banks will pay the agent commission, it can just be a long drawn out process to negotiate the short sale.

Almost all lenders have their properties marketed through a Realtor, and pay a commission.

I took some of those on but after having to work a short sale, get the bank to agree to waive a deficiency against borrower, negotiate water liens down with the city attorneys and the watershed department, work on other lien holders including back property taxes it's too much work.The units would be gut jobs on the inside and you had to do months of negotiations where I would make only 6k or so in commission because the units would sell for a few k each.I do not mess with these types of properties anymore.

It's ARV * 70% minus repairs = purchase price.The 30% "gross spread" is intended to cover: profit, purchase closing costs, holding costs, sellling costs (commissions, concessions, closing costs), and of course financing costs.Ideally, your profit will be 15-20% of ARV.

FYI the move-in fee or commission can range from 2500-10K+ depending on the home.The information to facilitate these transactions can be done via craigslist (FSBOS) and tenant buyers can be marketed to via websites - google ad words, facebook, plentyoffish, etc.