Is this a Sale-Leaseback wherein the seller has an incentive to sign an above market rent lease in order to procure a higher sales price?

Purchase price: $34,000 Cash invested: $16,000 Procured an investor for this deal and I live in the house while I’m fixing it up.

The only issue I can see by initially circumventing your agent could potentially be "cut out" of the deal and/or their commission when you do end up writing an offer because the listing agent could argue that your agent was not "procuring cause" for your interest in the property since you contacted the listing agent directly and began negotiations. 

Does researching/scheduling/attending  inspections, procuring insurance, etc. count? 

My conviction for doing out of state fix/flips was mainly procured by the desire to have more options and opportunities available rather than having to be tied a more trying California market.

Real estate agent, wholesaler, material procurement, GC, etc. 

A real estate broker, for the purposes of this article, is defined to be a person, firm or corporation who, for a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, or by reason of a promise or reasonable expectation thereof, lists for sale, sells, exchanges, buys or rents, or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale, exchange, purchase or rental of real estate or an interest therein, or collects or offers or attempts to collect rent for the use of real estate or solicits for prospective purchasers or assists or directs in the procuring of prospects or the negotiation or closing of any transaction which does or is contemplated to result in the sale, exchange, leasing, renting or auctioning of any real estate or negotiates, or offers or attempts or agrees to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon or transfer of any real estate for others, or any person who, for pecuniary gain or expectation of pecuniary gain conducts a public or private competitive sale of lands or any interest in lands.

AZ has some very stringent construction defect suits and is the hardest state to procure GL for a GC.So you are taking an extremely high risk by working with uninsured contractors.

I traded some private coaching for his son in order to be able to purchase any multifamily unit of his that he has procured in a recent buyout from another aging investor.

Courses #5 – 8 may be included in your postsecondary educationExperience Requirements – 20 transactions The Division calculates the transactions to ensure the applicant meets a total of twenty by using the following formulas: • Listing agent in the sale of property owned by another = ½ transaction • Selling agent in the sale of property owned by another = ½ transaction • Listing agent in the lease of commercial or industrial real estate owned by another for a term of at least one year = ½ transaction • Procuring agent in the lease of commercial or industrial real estate owned by another for a term of at least one year = ½ transaction • Listing and /or procuring agent in the lease of four residential real estate properties owned by another for a term of at least one-year = 1 transactionThere are also requirements about not having a criminal record.http://www.com.ohio.gov/documents/real_Requirement...You can probably get into investing sooner than you can accomplish all of that.