Bird dog fees

I am relatively new at this but I buy and sell notes for cash and have bunches of properties in several states such as Texas California and Florida and a few in New York. I also do bird dogging, for those who choose not to make notes and I go to investors and do real property deals, I find out quite a bit of information, I give them the assessed value and much more information, I will also negotiate prices for Example New home California valued at 2,000,000. was able to negotiate to 1.6 million. I guess my question or comment is why do I always have argue about my fee. When I buy owner finance notes I get anywhere from 4 - 12 per cent. But the bird dog they always want to low ball I actually had someone offer me 50.00 for my fee after I had done so much work. Why is this?
Are there standard fee forms?

Curious, since you are so good at negotiating, why not just wholesale/assign? That way you “charge” what you want as a fee, and get paid better.

That’s what I don’t understand. You have plenty of information here on this forum to get paid higher fees. You are an investor. Go and get your own bird dogs do do that. You cash the big checks. :cool