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It is illegal for agents to receive kickbacks from Lenders.

I have been a lurker on this thread for ages now, and have read through it repeatedly.  

There are no rules for wholesalers the way there are for agents.

As for agents, I do have a license (and so am trying to navigate the terrain of doing both) though I primarily want to wholesale.

I could clearly see utilizing that for condo-rental property, or possibly vacation rental property even.I had recently discovered the Oregon Economic Analysis office which has some very interesting data.So I looked at the predicted population growth per year for ages 25-64 for 2018-2026 and compared that with the predicted number of housing starts (~steady 23k per year) and came up with a similar timeline of 2022/23 being where the housing starts catch-up. 

Not good for agents and landlords.

Investment Info:

Condo buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $144,000

Cash invested: $800

Deal was on the MLS, used owner occupancy loan as my primary residence. After a few months I realized th...

My point was targeted at new investors looking for agent representation.

On top of that it's heavily fragmented and being threatened on several fronts by disrupters and other external forces.Glenn Sanford's goal was to redesign the model in the cloud-based era to minimize overhead costs (brick & mortar, redundant staffing, etc) while improving services & compensation  to provide a value proposition for agents that is so strong it would be "irresponsible" (his words) to hang your license anywhere else.