Occasionally these do turn into actual real estate and can provide you with the jazz of working through a challenge creatively.  

I hope to close on everything but I could see a situation where I come across a few deals at once and I'm spread thin on funds to close or funds are delayed, this is a situation where I could do the occasional assignment.Even if the money is equal or near equal, when I work as an investor I'm working for myself.  

@Anthony Giannette I usually don't give the mls listings much interest but occasionally will entertain the possibility if an interesting deal comes along.

@Eric W.I can't give you veteran advice as i'm still a newbie myself in the Realtor world, but the office i work out of has a handful of part time Realtors that work and the way they cash in to make extra money and grow their SOI is by doing the Open Houses for the listing agents and occasional buyer leads they pick up from the open houses.

When rehabbing a property we occasionally pay using company's check.

However, you usually have either a 0$ move out because a good tenant wants the deposit back or, occasionally, a bad move out that costs a lot more.

After talking to him several times on the phone I now know the full price is $2000 a year which would include phone calls, webinars, weekly one on ones with my sales guy friend and an occasional one on one with the president.

Our private loans usually come at between 7-10% (9% is most common) and no points (occasionally 1).

Several of my friends and I use sushi (and I occasionally buy another Ferrari). 

Occasionally people who have homes for rent might be interested in selling off market, but that might not be the best deal, just depends.