Qualified Intermediary Services for 1031 Exchanges

[Robert Hetsler]

has anyone had a good or bad experience with a referral from your qualified intermediary (QI) while listening to the qualified intermediary when the qualified intermediary made the referral incidental to the practice of being a 1031 exchange intermediary? I am not interested about the legalities of the qualified intermediary collecting any sort of fee commission as I am familiar with that but I would like to know how many individuals that engaged in a 1031 exchanged looked to their QI as someone that could provide direction in the real estate investment world? is it a value added service for a QI to have national connections through brokers, DST, TIC's, property and casualty insurance and lenders etc....