Let’s say you find the deal, your contractor fixes it up, your real estate agent sells it and your friend does the design and staging.

An example would be a phase one environmental study.

Environmental regulations are only going to get tougher going forward forcing oil heat out of favour in time. 

Why you should stop looking for a "investor friendly" RE agent

I am in the process of working with a friend that will be a hard money lender. 

If it was me, this is where I would go start talking very seriously with a couple friends that had expressed an interest owning real estate. 

I flip and my friends who are REI also seeing shrinking profit margins not only due to rising material and labor costs but also the loss of multiple bids.However, with any market there are locations still commanding high dollar.

I have a friend that owns a vending machine business and in a lot of cases the businesses don't get a cut of profits, but the businesses want the machine there so it will be there for customers, and the vending company supplies the machine, keeps it stocked, and maintained and keeps all the profits.

I will put down her name as well and also make her get hand cramps by signing/writing :P I'd love to get in touch with your friend.

Send me a private message if you want to discuss that.A friend who is a realtor mentioned the same thing as well.