Perfectly fine, you don't have to agree to do extra footwork, you're doing it anyway. :)

Who needs a little footwork done over the next several weeks?

You can go knock on doors, drive neighborhoods for vacant looking homes and send letters, offer yourself to do footwork for an out of state investor, post on Craigslist, drop off hand made pieces or door hanger so to houses.

I would be willing to help do some of the foot work in any deals you have going in order for me to learn all the steps involved and to contribute for your help.My main goals at the moment are a combination of acquiring some rental properties for ongoing monthly cash flow and the occasional wholesaling or flipping for more short term cash.  

You do the footwork, they can get a high teen return, and then you get a piece of the pie. 

Ok so I am new to REI but have had a couple things close..all with the help of a JV partner who is a broker/investor them self..I have a website which I advertise my business on craigslist and other places which got me 1 that we wholesaled..and found a vacant property we tracked down the owners daughter to and that one wholesaled and then had a person who sells me leads sell us a probate one and that got wholesaled...my partner does all the work as in paper and title/contract/closing ..all of it..im basically bringing the deals and doin the foot work and im a ghost on contract..we split 50/50 ..the money has been great but im to a point where its not enough for me to make my own moves..so rather than waiting for people to call me im looking for REOs and foreclosures and looking for ones that have big equity gaps and when i find one i want to get it then either wholesale or rehab it and do this a few times taking little chunks of money and saving it until i get a goal of 50k...my problem is the money part..i can use my partners private money who is asking 12%annual interest and the money wants 50% of profits ..which would leave the other 50% for me and my partner to split and id probably stay being a ghost and being quiet OR do I just go get my own hard money loan and break away from him and start taking all the risk...no risk no reward i get it but if i continue to do it the way i been doing it then i'll be little more on easy street until my goal is met.  1 down side is time..i think my partner is treats me more like a option rather than a priority which I understand but I dont get questions and things done as fast as i think they should get handled. what do you guys think?

I myself did a lot of this foot work as I was getting into my farming area. 

A good plan, since you've said you're willing to work for free with someone, is to do the footwork for someone more experienced and share the deal with them somehow.  

We try to keep the footwork around 50/50 and our business pays us as 1099 contractors individually when there is a task we deem necessary to monetize. 

So I basically want to find an investor get their requirements, find something for them and get flipped a few grand for doing the footwork for them.