Out of State / Area - I understand the heartburn on this, but people do it all the time very successfully. 

As far as the market rate goes, I can only suggest a trusted CRE broker or lender/Ln broker that operates in the area as they will see a volume of current/recent comparable deals and can give a general range for a particular property type/class, in the particular area.

Not much you can do about the Japanese yen being devalued or some such thing5) short answer is no, though there are some exceptions which are convoluted and not worth going into at low volume. 

I would assume that a decent drywall service would have some form of tiered pricing depending on volume

I’ve found renters from each of the channels (which is why I use all of them), in my experience, Craigslist has decent volume but the folks are most likely to flake & not show up for viewings, Zillow has pretty solid flow & gives some good stats on views vs comps which is helpful if your testing pricing & in my area Facebook had the best volume (also a lot of property managers don’t seem to be using it yet) - I received over 50 contacts for my last rental & the integration with FB messenger made it pretty easy to address questions & schedule appointments.

Truth is it's all relative...the one thing I do know is that successful flippers don't stay flippers for very long...they move to selling intellectual property or lending...how many high-volume flippers do you know...if you find one, ask to take a look at their tax returns ;) 

@Aaron Faulk gotcha, gotcha...There are a lot of unknown specifics for someone outside to be able to advise on how much the split should be or what your transaction volume might look like. 

I’ve now been a part of the Featured Agent Program as an agent in both Nashville, TN and just outside of Los Angeles, CA, and can attribute over $15 million in sales volume from the leads in just over 18 months.

Lease volume almost doubles between the peaks and troughs of the pink line.

At any volume..