Even at 6% the commission is nothing for the time involved to close it.

I don't begrudge anyone their commissions, but this felt wrong to me.

I am acting as the agent and buyer so I will receive 3% back as commission.  

With my income from my rental properties and the large reduction in living expenses from owning a duplex, my monthly SR is ~$3000 (not including bonuses and commissions from W-2).  

They are on commission onlyWhen you talk to the owner of the auction company, let them know that you are actively involved in real estate and would they consider hiring you on a part time bases and pay you a commission for every transaction you bring them.Make sure you have something in writing as to the amount they will pay you.Ask if you can become an auctioneer associate, ask if they will train you and if you can your their facilities to help get leadsMy auctioneer associate's average earnings is about $90,000 a yearUse the Control and Roll system to increase your income.......that is control a property at a price that you feel you can sell for more, put it up for auction (while working for the auction company) and sell it for more, ( Example: your contract offer ----with special clauses and disclosures---is for $100,000, you book the property with your auction company and sell it at auction for $115,000, you make $15,000 equity plus 25% of the buyers premium commission paid to you form the auction company. 

We might be transitioning our current business model to offer even greater than average commissions and incentives to find quality motivated agents that will serve us hence themselves. 

In the time they put in 40 offers to find maybe one that works in say 6 months time they can close 10 deals or more with the same effort.Just like investors the brokers want efficiency with closings and commissions.

Close a few deals as an agent, continue to save your income and commissions.

FYI theses properties are in the $50k to $110k range and I don't have a problem paying his commission now for information rather than get burned in the end.

It saves big money (no agent commissions!).