It's good business to be a community player and to help out at times of natural disaster.

Yes, you may squeeze a half a percent or a percent, or a few bucks, out of the fees but if you end up with a less competent PM, it'll cost you way more than that over the long run.

Sometimes that's anywhere from 2-4 units, or others I've seen even small apartment complexes listed.There are commercial sites that offer listings as well, like Loopnet or Costar, for the bigger players.

So before I'd ever consider bidding, I would need a competent title rep to research.Paying cash is not a problem.

They often compete with me on advertised deals.

I also have a very competent RE attorney so I should be able to pick up a few w/o attending too many classes in that school you mentioned :)Yet I still wanted some material to review, pick up a few tips, etc.

It's not really the agents choice on whether they can accept the proposition it's the head brokers unless they are with a flat fee company where the amount paid initially would cover their fee to the broker.I just think to TRUST that an investor is going to pay you the commission after a deal is done and has the property is very high risk.Anything goes wrong and you will be the first one getting the shaft and chasing the money wasting time and energy.If I was the broker or agent I would try to line up as many investor buyers doing sub 2 and not accept such a position.As always parties with different interests will align themselves different ways.It's almost similar in commercial real estate leasing in that as a broker you want to try to extract as much commission upfront.The longer your payments are spread out in the lease the more chance of the business going under especially a mom and pop operation.If I had the investor buying hat on I would probably try a similar strategy.This is why investors like off market deals because they can isolate the seller and extract the best price and terms.When many buyers are competing for the same deal the pool of competing buyers lose leverage to the seller.

I mean no dis-respect with the title, I just need to quickly determine who the real players in the industry are - whether they are individuals, companies or institutions.

Edit: Basically, I would like to know how to get into the Commercial game faster, because once I am a player in the Commercial game, then I'm sure I would not deal with SFH's, but who knows.

It's ironic that this program was set up to reduce investors competing.