It's in foreclosure,  owned by Veterans Affairs and off market. 

Would he or she be better off to hire their own contractor and pay them to do properties and not have to split the profit with you or anyone else?

I think your example is off point a little.

The NAR and RE Brokers have been breaking the law for years and they got off lightly.

Replace matured or payment default loan with loan of greater amount and pay off all arrears3.

You could pay off the pool with STR profits and then cash flow from there.

As an agent, I scrub the tax and property records for data to find off market deals and skip trace using a combination of spokeo (alright) and batch skip tracing (better) and call using mojo dialer. 

In Washington state right off the I 5 corridor .. my land partner got into contract for 65k ( infill lot that could handle a duplex or two units) put it on the MLS ( which is how you get top dollar) sold in 3 days multiple offers for 110k netted us 100k so 35k net profit .. which I have a formula to split with the acquisition partner. ( PS its always more to them than me) but bottom line if you can fill your pipeline its easily a low 6 figure to mid to high 6 figure when you have a capital partner like myself.. or someone else.. does take a fair amount of capital though usually 500k to 1 mil in cash to make that kind of money so thats where we come in.

Bathrooms, kitchen, sweep/mop, off week.

It’ll be paid off in 10 years.