Building/Adding CRE Division from Residential Firm - Splits to ask for?
Greetings all. I have become friends with a smaller residential brokerage broker &amp; owner. Less than 5 agents under her. They do a nice business in our market selling homes/representing buyers. 

I work a for CRE firm (Broker Office/Industrial) - she wants to bring me on to expand, lead the new to be created CRE Brokerage business unit of her firm (sales &amp; leasing). 

My question is, what type of fee/commission split in this case is normal and fair? I am not bringing in much of a book of business (I have 5+ years of experience, the senior guys will keep clients) however she has a nice book of CRE usually refers out since that's not what they do... now that would be kept in house, for me to run with/grow. Ideally within 6+ months, we would bring in another broker under me... should I be asking for a small fee off what every (new) broker earns for fees? Any others items I should discuss now? I would be a non-owner/partner, just 1099. 

I am newer to something like. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
[{"id": "gm0635s", "text": "Make sure that she's carrying enough and the right kind of errors and omissions (E&amp;O) insurance. When they sue in commercial it can be expensive and nasty, so make sure if that happens it happens to her and not to you. If she's your principal broker (PB) she'll be signing and reviewing all your contracts, make sure she knows enough to do that. So have that conversation now before you start doing the deals.\n\n If you are going to go in bare and be supervised by someone who doesn't really know the biz you are taking a bigger risk than you might think. If you're bringing the knowledge and taking the risk, you should get a larger than normal split. Also be sure there's a way for both of you to exit gracefully after a trial period if it doesn't work out.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gr0rrw9", "text": "If you are not going to be a partner or gain additional profits outside of the commissions, what will be the benefit of going to work for this person?\n\nI have been in a similar situation where someone agrees to pass on the work that is not their area of expertise, but really none of the their leads panned out.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]