Big investors like the one you're going to be meeting with, often time don't have the time/take the time/want to spend the time to find deals like yours so you have a good offering, if he/she is interested in partnering with you on it.A mentor of mine told me it isn't uncommon for a 3 person partnership to be split evenly if one person brought the deal, one person is financing it, and one person is managing it going forward.

It was a pretty good deal and I brought very little (relatively) money to the table.

I start with brought rules (mainly 1 or 2 percent rule) and then go from there.

I also brought out and architect to determine how to best tackle the problem.Were they visible?

We recently ran into an issue whereby adding walls drew enough outside attention that our project got shut down and an engineer had to be brought in to provide drawings for the space (cost us $5K) even after the walls were already up!

They want 2-3% of the cash (cap gains) brought into the trust.

Purchase price: $245,000 Cash invested: $26,500 Sale price: $300,000 I've been a long time lurker on this forum and never made the time to sit down and post what brought me back into what my family has dealt in since the 40's in Louisville.

Purchase price: $245,000 Cash invested: $26,500 Sale price: $300,000 I've been a long time lurker on this forum and never made the time to sit down and post what brought me back into what my family has dealt in since the 40's in Louisville.

I brought up refinancing back to a 30 year strictly for cash flow. 

What if the mls charged a flat 5% to be on their system and they gave a 2.5% commission to people who brought listings and 2.5% to people who brought a seller.