E's (and ongoing monitoring), is time consuming and costly.

Time consuming?

Hello JonPlease tell us how you handle today’s problems with the Safe Act and consumer finance.

One great rule of thumb is the 50% rule. http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/17612-where-does-the-5-rule-come-from-This states that over time, all of your expenses (vacancy, property tax, management, repairs, CAPEX, insurance, advertising, etc, but not mortgage principle and interest) will consume roughly 50% of your gross rent.

Kinda hard to have a strong consumer economy when there is nothing being sold to generate the income to buy.

My questions are if the wholesaler opted to assign the contract, what is your thought process when seeing how much the wholesaler makes?

As it gets cheaper, with hard money at 8.5% - that's the interest rate on loans for apartment buildings, (California loans for investment, not consumer purposes) more people are using hard money lenders as a source for financing rental or investment properties.

I've done a fair amount of HUD bidding, and purchased three properties in 2013, so I know how time consuming the bidding process can be.Regards,Mark

If you opt to continue the relationship in the 2nd year the commission drops down to 8%.

I normally wouldn't opt to do a rent back but they needed it and in return they made a significant price drop.