It's precisely because they only do it once a decade that they obsess over it.

I understand the pay is negotiable, I just wanted to see if other agents had any more precise knowledge of the typical payment sturcutre.

You have to include this if you are assuming the $80K was invested in example 2)$600K (total cash at the end of 30 years)Tenant buys ($20K paid):$100K (property value)$150K (cash flow $5K per year for 30 years)$350K (principal plus interest from investing the $80K at 5% - so the number includes the original $80K)$600K (total cash at the end of 30 years)These are not precise numbers, but essentially you end up with similar outcome, because you are reinvesting the "initial cash difference of $80K" or the "added yearly cash flow of $5K" at the same interest rate. 

He has proved this by out-performing pretty much everyone else, even through and despite market volatility.His strategy is not complicated nor is it a secret.His first strategy is simple and cliche - don't panic, invest long term, buy when stocks are low or more precisely, when they are undervalued. 

Isn’t that precisely what everyone was screaming for?  

And then lending rapidly decreased, precisely when those properties were being foreclosed. 

What precisely defines those criteria is based on individual facts and circumstances, as indicated by the courts and IRS.  

They withhold the information on the deal until a week prior to the release of the deal so that you precisely don't have the time to do your own due diligence.