Actually, we all should have relationships with multiple realtors regardless of our method for locating deals. 

I do need to take the time spent and risk into consideration, so a finder's fee and carried interest split seems like a fair method.  

Methods may not be taught in the beginning, what you learn is the basis for everything done, what rights are held, how they are assigned, transferred, what rights are conveyed by an option, why tenants can't do some things.....it just makes everything come together when you read methods used after you get the basics.

There's no reason you couldn't manage the job, while hiring a general contractor and subs for the work.MY son has a friend that is a parplegic, and he competes in freestyle motorcycle events, of course it's not exactly the same as before his accident, but, he has adapted to fit his circumstances.

I doubt you could find a flip candidate in the Bay Area on MLS, unless it's a demo/rebuild.Most rehabbers use wholesalers who have creative methods for finding the diamonds in the rough.

The BP community has a lot of information about various marketing methods.

All these methods may be time consuming but just food for thought!

But the way were looking at it, and as you can see, this would be a very nice note spread that we'd d like to pull off - with a double closing or another method, in lieu of just an upfront assignment fee and be finished with it scenario.Is there a way of doing it?

At least not for laypeople like me.By the way, I only used Flickr because that's what this post suggested:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/25/topics/78596-has-the-method-of-uploading-photos-changed

I have definitely seen a difference in the calls with both methods.