It's a rewarding process.

Sometimes this fact can be financially very rewarding for you.If you are having a difficult time finding a real estate agent to work with you, my guess is you are simply trying to serve as a wholesaler or middleman and the real estate agent fails to see the benefit of working with you.

Apartment complexes seem to figure that out so they never actually rewarded loyalty and long term renters with low rate.

BUT.... as I know there is a very large development of a Train Station HUB just a few blocks away, I am using my intellect and know that it will eventually increase my rents as the demand for the area increases.Eventually, 10 years from now, and that Train station hub is opened, I will reap the reward of approximately $4k per year or $383 per month increase in cash flow.You cannot do this kind of analysis with a Cash on Cash Return.You need the Internal Rate of Return.When you want to talk to the big boys, the Investment Bankers, the Commercial Lenders, your own Partners, sophisticated investors, etc., you need to understand IRR, how it works and why the one shot CoCR is just not correct.When you really understand these calculations.... the all kinds of scenarios can be modeled.When you understand all kinds of scenarios, you can begin to predict the future with accuracy as you use your God Given Intellect.

All of your questions are why cash for keys is ridiculous and lazy, rewarding illegal behavior and sends the wrong message and creates more of the same type of problems for everyone else,  quite frankly those that get burned doing it, more power to those savvy enough to do it to them.Use the proper legal means, do it right and all of these issues aren't issues.

Play to your strengths and risk tolerance .Play to your own effort/reward, cost/benefit analysis.

I'm seeing a lot of NNN leases right now, but I think there's a small move to a percentage lease- the landlord and the tenant are more like partners, and if tenant does well, landlord reaps the financial rewards too!

Landlords cannot be rewarded for work performed on their property.

The amount of deals that you close on is up to you, because they will be based on your workload, your investing team, and your seller and buyer leads-all developed by YOU.This is your information nugget for today.May Your Efforts Be Rewarded,Anthony Davis

Treat everyone you deal with with respect and honesty and those actions will be rewarded with trust and business.