And have your financing lined up, or at least identified.If you're planning to wholesale and want your agent to blast out a high volume of offers that are significantly below market, pay them (through their broker) a separate fee for each offer.  

A freshly completed transaction is the single best data point an appraiser has to work with; especially right now with generally low transaction volumes in many markets.

In building my transaction volume and working with investors, I've struck up a JV partnership with a client who bought a flip with me as his agent.  

I probably would actually have a better chance of double ending if i listed on the MLS because a common practice for buyers these days is to call the listing agent directly and ask him to write up the offer.In addition, I work on a volume level for most my pocket listings.

In doing so I decided to hang my salesperson license with RE/MAX, which is a great company if you have the volume.

That will speak volumes to the customer-tenant.

I don't do enough volume as they had a high volume buyer deal that just provides one $2500 deposit for all their bids.

This volume could be significant.

Many  realtors will charge only 1% or another reduced rate because you are an investor and will hopefully bring volume business.

AVG Millionaire is said to have over 7 (or several depending on volume) streams of income.