If you try to sell for a profit and can't or don't sell living in it doesn't make it a good investment.

I use 40% of rent as my assumed expenses, which assuming I'm not paying for property management.Now you know your immediate profit and your long term monthy cash flow.

A few years ago a company I worked with did the premium texts thing (text a name of a product to a number to get a brief review sent back to you) - it was profitable, but not a massive success - maybe now that texts are cheaper it may be more popular.

Emotions have a strange way of affecting your profits if they are not controlled.

Preforeclosure investors don't want a realtor involved because another middleman just eats the profits.

The question is if we can split the profit anyway we want?

The most profitable areas don't always meet those "nice areas" criteria.

must be sweet to get 5 grand for a little more time, plus a 1K for the assignment fee, and last but not least, makes a good profit at closing too,, stop,,stop, your rubbing it in to hard.

There are also quite a few that exist for profit, and who will do what they need to to make a buck.

Offer Equity Split Agreements (do not have to be 50 50) in the spread at the back end where they get some profit.