This option (when available) may allow each "designated agent" to more fully represent each party.If you choose the “dual agency” option, remember that since a dual agent’s loyalty is divided between parties with competing interests, it is especially important that you have a clear understanding of what your relationship is with the dual agent and what the agent will be doing for you in the transaction.BuyersWhen buying real estate, you may have several choices as to how you want a real estate firm and its agents to work with you.

The reason being, they suddenly have a lot more to worry about than investing -- they need to worry about partnership agreements, dealing with variable money sources, dividing responsibilities, etc. 

Even real estate appraisers refer to a cap rate in the the appraisal process when what they are really using is a net opportunity cost or alternative investments carrying similar risks.It's easy to use and easy to say and investors know what you mean, that your the value divided by the net operating income gives you a ratio.

I like to look at cap rate, and many like cash on cash return cap rate is income minus expenses (excluding financing costs) divided by purchase price. 

@Ian Ippolito, @Bryan Hancock, So for my own clarification.... we are talking about the divide between the real estate crowdfunding platforms that list investment opportunities from multiple sponsors and where the sponsor and the platform are not affiliated with each other on one hand, and on the other side real estate crowdfunding platforms that list investment opportunities from one sponsor exclusively and where that sponsor and the platform are affiliated?

If you purchase a large piece of property and later decide to sub-divide it, you could distribute out a piece from an LLC without incurring a taxable event.

If I divide this bill by four units, each tenant would pay $46.03.

For instance, if a property worth $10 million brings in $100,000 per door, the cap rate is $100,000 divided by $10 million.To quickly size up a deal, I rely on the 1% rule: if the price is $100,000 per door, I expect to see at least $1,000 in monthly rent.

Your “overhead” costs to buy & sell the house + holding costs, interest, property taxes etc, luckily these can be pretty easily calculated, many websites like closing companies will have websites where you can fill out information about a property and it will tell you the costs to buy & sell, loan costs are easily calculable, take your purchase multiply by intrest rate divide by 12, that’s your monthly expenses multiply by the number of months you project the to complete, a good rule of thumb is even cosmetic can easily be 6 months anything more complicated can be 9-12 though all that can very greatly.3.

I would like my SD IRA to make most of the exit fee and the interest income to be divided between the SD IRA and my LLC based on the $ contributions.Please advise how this disproportionate income distribution is possible for a note with SD IRA and my personal LLC?