They understand your needs and do a big portion of the leg work for you.

Unless your profit is really good I would make sure the investor purchasing the home understands they will need to pay their agents fees.

I'm not sure I understand your question.

If I didn't understand it, I listened to it again the next day or week, over and over until I did understand it.  

I don't understand what you are asking here. 

I understand what ARV is.

I want to understand not just services provided and how I would make money, but also how the provider is making money ... if the provider makes money while I lose money, it's a no-go ... if I can't understand how the provider is making money honestly in the contract, then I know that they will either try to make money off of me dishonestly or they will soon be out of business, and neither one is good for me so no-go there too.

At the same time we understand it's not all roses and chocolates and there will be hiccups.

I don't really understand the taxable remark.  

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