How do you pay an UNofficial bird dog???

[Greg B.]

Good afternoon BP,

I have a quick question about paying a bird dog that isn't in the business to bird dog? If someone brings me a property address and I end up closing on it then pay the dog a few hundred bucks, I'm going to account for it in my books (right?). So at the end of the year when doing taxes I will expense that out. The issue I'm having is do I send this unofficial bird dog a 1099 or whatever? How do you experts handle the fee?