I'm not sure I understand Kevin. As long as the searcher assigned to that county is able to handle the volume generated by the corporation how would fewer searchers translate into less funding to the corporation? The funding is dependent on the number of searches assigned, not the number of searchers available for assignment. Or did I miss something?

More searchers would only mean dillution of available assignments an individual member would receive. I don't see how this would help the funding of the corporation but it does seem to me it would lessen the benefits to membership. How would the corporation gain from this dilution of the available assignments? How would the individual member gain?

Lets suppose the corporation develops 100 assignments in one county. The corporation receives $5.00 per assignment or $500 total. Does it matter to the corporation whether this $500 is paid by 50 local researchers or one? in my view the benefit to the corporation is the same but the benefit to the  individual researcher is substancially dilluted.

It  also occurs to me that at least some of the assignments would likely come from clients previously developed by individual stockholders. Without some form of territorrial protection the stockholder could lose a valued client. With territorial protection the individual researcher could openly offer this same client the enhanced service (appraisers, closing agents, etc ) offered by the company.