So at least make sure you find a good deal to put your hard-earned money into rather than just jump into this from across the world and expect a turnkey company to be there for you.

A lot of people use social like a cake recipe without the key ingredients and wonder why the cake won't rise/bake well/taste good.

I write in my offers that it is understood that this offer is made for the purpose of earning a reasonable profit short term of long term.Making written and verbal disclosures are very important.What would you do and how would you handle settlement if your assignment fee was $50,000 and the seller was just getting his $50,000 mortgage paid off at settlement.There is one right answer .......... another alternative answer is available that would avoid this situation and satisfy the seller.First to get the answer right wins a creative pocket pack. 

The leverage story had something to do with us going up to our local bank and getting a loan for 3 million dollars & paying $30,000 a month for debt service while earning $70,000 a month in rental income. 

You can agree to pay $X a month as a salary and set the agreement so that the agent is only to earn $X, if and when they earn any commission, then that amount is deducted from your payroll obligation, saving you that amount instead of paying it out.2.

Another way to look at the situation; you earn about $6,500 per year if  all goes well.  

If you are seeking birddogs I imagine that you will have to keep looking every 4to6 months for them because for the average noob that's serious about this business they would've learned, earned and moved on by then.

If you want to earn extra money aside from the listings, and sales that you are ordinarily making.... wholesale. 

If you take that slice of cash every month that you should be investing in maintenance and instead stuff it in the pocket and call it profit, then you certainly will end up with a pile of decrepit houses - and you'll earn the title 'slumlord.'3.

"Passive income" in Canada is taxed at a higher rate than "earned income".