Will also do reduced rate inspections for investors. 

This reduced our overall preapproval amount.Has anyone had experience showing that your unit is easy to rent out?  

(Link below) 100% commission, what you earn is what you keep.  

Fill up costs for 275 gallon tank that is 1/4 full still means you put in about 200 gallons or more; when prices crept to $4 per gallon, that's an $800 fill up that lots of tenants won't be able to cough up, or if they do the rent might be short ;) And it will need to be filled multiple times during a normal heating season; this past December, being so warm, obviously reduces that a bit this season. 

Typically the broker will take a split of any commissions earned by you and you would be expected to do as much of the grunt work as possible while you are learning and building your book of business. 

Keep your creativity flowing and this shall reduce giving attention to those thoughts which may be the mind trying to self-sabotage your goals and plans.

either move in with someone or have someone move in with you to reduce your payments

When tenants do disconnect them it is surprisingly easy to catch them as many take the entire detector down and never put it back while others remove the battery and unplug the detector.Our insurance company frowns on disabled smoke detectors  - not sure if they would use a disconnected detector to deny/reduce a claim, but I prefer not to test them.We are experimenting with a new detector which we can "see" with our building monitoring system.  

Also finding a broker that provides you with leads may work well for you, the broker will take a large cut but you reduce the time spent finding leads.

Maybe email them right away laying out the ins and outs of your deal and how you could earn them more return on their money?