The costs of transacting are too high, the rental yields are ridiculously low, the capital growth is being stymied by the governments recent actions and the affordability issue for locals is causing even more issues for investors.Investing in any property market requires the fundamentals to be in place to make it viable.

Yes that is true, provided the transaction ever makes it to a title company in the first place.

I've made a few realtor to realtor, mls type transactions, but this language is new to me. 

It sounds the owner has not provided a fail safe feature.

If you want my full library, PM me.While the general theory is fairly universal, depending where the OP will be investing, many of the references above will be lacking detail applicable to his home market.I was being polite and pointing out that many things surrounding real estate transactions in Canada are quite different that in the U.S.A. ... as they would be for any country.This is a little different than doing your local research.

They help make larger transactions possible and can truly bring real value beyond just raising some money. 

Wondering how smooth the transaction was and how their communication is.

It also eliminates the need for appraisals, and the annoyance of detailing every minor financial transaction while you apply for a new loan as well as loan origination costs etc and since you don't have to deal with the bank  you can close a lot faster.

There is a charge per transaction.

I'm guessing they'd let you transact business for yourself.