. - it means nothing if you don't have a deal to sell or a property to collect a birddog fee on.

Minimum I would collect your application fee.

The cool part is your seller can pocket the option fee and sell the house again whilst collecting above market rents and leaving operating expenses to the buyer.

The mortgage broker is collecting a fee each time he closes and it may make sense for the borrower in that the first loan may have been high, except that the borrower should have gotten a better rate.  

So you go from collecting $750 per mo in rent to $1350 per mo in rent.  

I only know because my 80 yo mother got a call from them  HEY you have money you can collect just sign here..Well I knew which county they probably had overages in so it was not difficult for me to contact the tax collector and retrieve the funds for my mother for FREE. 

@Jason Reynolds The assignment fee is collected at the start for your role as a principal in the transaction.

This is no problem at all when you're collecting 3-5% plus first and last from your T/B.

Most agents are commission driven, and it will be hard to convince a seller to pay commission on an amount of money yet-to-be collected (in a traditional transaction there is no strings attached, commission typically comes out of equity proceeds from closing).That said...

After reading your message, I downloaded the entire podcast collection and listened to them for about 4 hours.