If you are ever planning on getting married or having children, or you want to leave something behind for some other important people in your life, the monthly or annual cost of life insurance is substantially less when you are younger, and compound interest is real just like using compound interest in your IRA and other retirement accounts  Yes insurance agents make a commission on product they sell you. 

Brokers get paid on commission and that motivates them to deal with people that can close. 

I'm curious if anyone here has become licensed so they could sell their own flips and save the 3% on the agent selling commissions.

I saw some limited stuff on forums about this, but really want some expert opinions on time put in versus likely commissions and whether it can complement a real estate investor or it just turns into its own stressful long-term job. 

I'm NOT a wholesaler, but from what I've read here on BP you need to have an agreement signed with the seller that acknowledges that you're wholesaling it for him and you will receive XX commission upon sale.

Also the plan is being presented to the Planning Commission next Thursday at around 10 a.m.

Generally owners pay the commissions, not the government agency.

- I have a method for making offers, it maybe lower than asking price but are you comfortable putting in lower offers (if requested I will show how I came up with my offer price) - (Since I'm a flipper) I work with a variety of agents but I have a policy that if an agent shows me or notifies me of a property, then that agent gets the commission (this is outside of a email from an MLS notification). 

When it comes to commercial, you're going to get a pretty awesome education working for a commercial brokerage, BUT a lot of them might have one or two ways to go about generating leads and they might be a little rigid about how creatively you can do things (I've also heard starting out, commercial real estate takes a lot longer to get to your first commission check - so be prepared, financially, if you're going full time, to not get paid for 6 months to a year). 

Why the hell should I pay 6% - 8% commissions for doing that?