There are monthly, quarterly and annual costs not to mention commission splits with your broker that come with being an agent so if it will pay for itself if you're doing enough volume then yes- go for it.

In addition, the biggest piece of advice I could provide is to ensure your wholesaling activities are highly scalable so you can produce the volume required to get consistent deals.

@Jon Klaus  I just made a clarifying post.however its regional in my mind.. in the PDX market we are flat fee based.. from as low as 7k if your doing volume 20 to 30 homes a year in production housing.. to 25k or more if you building customs.I average on my 350 to 450k builds 12 to 15k flat fee.. all other subs at cost ... and for insurance purposes we can't pay the subs direct we want that insurance on the GC.. but we are a signer on the GC account that is opened just for that build job.. our draws come into our account then we transfer the funds to the GC account.. and the GC pays subs.. but we get to see each and every invoice and check that goes out...

I recently bought a brand new business class Brother LED laser printer with print duty cycle listed as 2500/day, because my 2 year old generic Samsung laser printer overheated and died very quickly after attempting to print a large volume of letters at once....The reason i ask is because since buying the printer, i have started noticing that many of the big names on youtube have inkjet printers in the background and just feel like i'm going about it the wrong way for self printing. 

How is foreclosure volume in Houston?

All of these things will affect not only your number of calls, but the quality of the leads.You are mailing a low volume of letters so you want to make sure every one of them counts.  

The sheer volume of wholesaling being done is going to attract regulation.

Personally, I use the potential Cap as one of my initial criteria to reduce the volume I'm assessing.

We're getting ready to build several new construction buildings and I'm seeing some discount in volume but it's over 6+ units.

One key I'm finding is volume of deals.