@Jeremy KerrProps for stepping out of your comfort zone.To be honest, your worth in this particular deal is whatever the experienced large scale investor thinks it is (assuming you have no finder’s fee written contract in place.)Ballpark estimate in my opinion is that finding the deal might be worth 5% to 10% of the deal pending structure of the deal.If the large scale investor is a person of character and integrity, he should provide some form of compensation given your relationship with this person.My suggestion would be to not focus on the compensation per se but try to learn as much as you can from this person during the evaluation of the deal.

That's not a good feeling, and most people and REI have experienced it in one way or another.I think you should try to combine both options 1 and 2.

Snowed in this morning, I'm sure you're experiencing the same.

So my recommendation for you: learn and lean on experienced-others for advice, but know you have to make the plunge at some point and that you will likely not hit a homerun but rather experience an intense learning opportunity.

An experienced and knowledgable agent is worth their weight in gold.

I expect the numbers to climb back to earth a little in the fall, but the region has definitely experienced a lot of positive growth and publicity in the past year, so I believe demand will remain robust.That said, underwrite conservatively to make sure your numbers work at a low occupancy rate/nightly rate and be pleasantly surprised when you do better!

However would like a little bit of confirmation i suppose to build confidence as well get pointers of what ive missed from the experienced.   

3) Have an experienced, reputable contractor provide input on what it would take to get it right.Is it going to cash flow great as an investment in the meantime??

These are experienced investors that raise capital through private investors, they buy the property, you share in the return.

I'm interested how other REI view or have experienced this dilemma of words.