The end buyer often plays an active role in the negotiation.In the education to which I'm connected, Short Sales is a two 8-hour days class.

The tax sale roles are a good place for leads you'll spend only time on.

Each school is different as far as what they'll recognize as an internship, but because the position is remote, I could market only to the areas that would count it (plenty of schools are pretty lax on what they consider an internship).The primary concern would be keeping the role 1099 as opposed to W2 to assist in limiting costs and paperwork.

@Fernando FiscinaIntent plays a role, so you would be purchasing and renovating with the intention of holding the property as a rental (nudge, nudge).  

They want to look a certain way to attract attention, to build confidence, to build respect, compete to make money, be a role model or any number of many other WHY's.My point is that money is not a WHY, it is a means to an end.

It depends on what will incentivize them and also based on what their specific role is (for example, my project managers also handle things like coordinating staging, dealing with appraisers, dealing with alarms going off in the middle of the night, analyzing deals, etc).Personally, I pay my project managers monthly salary plus a percentage of the profits on each deal. 

And even if at the end of the option you don't sell it (or exercise your option to buy), they had their mortgage paid down, their credit scores kept or improved, prop not destroyed, and they got it back with equity.

My role would be to research the houses within a specialty area and then present them to you.If you end up buying the house, I'd receive a very small commission. 

@Kristine Eickman  It's not entirely clear what your role in the sale is because in your first post you said you were the buyer and in your second post you said you were the seller.

My role was business development with a focus of selling data management software to the government which was a painfully slow process.