I am practicing my financial modeling skills and reading up about real estate. 

It seems counter-intuitive and may be counter-intuitive, but if you think about building a scalable business model, this is one way to force that.

Also, when setting up a tenant, you can setup "custom fields" for their driver license #, SSN, vehicle model, move in / move out dates, etc. then generate a report with all that info.

I would check out the Assist2Sell business model maybe?

Hopefully there are reliable models that keep this sort of stuff to a minimum.

It just sucks to pay 3% buyers agent commission for an antiquated and an inflated commission model, and the 6% when two agents are involved is ridiculous, 6% of the price of the house can be 20-30% of the equity. 

Like it or not, this is a common model for this type of REI education.  

Hi all - I'm a new investor, looking for buy and hold rentals, been doing some pretty exhaustive financial modeling of deals for the past 8-10 months and am now under contract on a 6bed/3bath, 2700sqft home in Adair Park (SW Atlanta, zip 30310). 

I spent time both building a relationship with them and educating them on what would be needed to bring their house up to the standards of what today's buyers are looking for, what it would cost to do it, and what our business model is - so they would understand there was a max price we could pay.  

Jill DeWit Thank you for a great idea regarding raw land :))) by the way, what are the main moving parts of this business model?