Again in Florida it may be different (although having a Tampa agent come on would be a big help)I went ahead and looked up the rules for the MLS in Tampa and the following is listed:"Note 1: The multiple listing service shall not have a rule requiring the listing broker to disclose the amount of total negotiated commission in his listing contract, and the association multiple listing service shall not publish the total negotiated commission on a listing which has been submitted to the MLS by a participant.

I am actively looking for a mentor but I first have a few questions (please excuse the extremely stupid questions):When looking at fair market rent prices on websites like Zillow, is the price per room or total combined rent?

Total reno took 5 months and total holding time will be around 6-7 months.

We have to get this nailed down by the close of escrow obviously.2) Our HM lender terms are: $375k initial loan + $100k construction holdback = $475k Total Loan, 10%, 2.5 Pts, 6 mth.

Totally different businesses.

We are looking at a property that is not in our state so I am relying on our agent to guide us to better areas.

Totally agree with Rick. 

(wink)As you can see, I took your somewhat general questions and ran a direction totally the opposite of where you wanted to go, probably. 

Hopefully the house appreciates to a point where its worth more than total amount of the loan you gave him.

I'm a small business owner and my wife is a real estate agent (and ex interior designer), we both have 700+ credit scores, but not enough cash on hand to cover the difference between the usual 70-75% loaned by hard money lenders and the total cost of projects in the Tampa area.