Congratulations on your new adventure
However, before you invest time and money into it, has anyone advised you of the reqirements for your new position ? I strongly urge you to research the GAPBA BEFORE moving there to make sure you qualify.Secondly, make sure you get any kind of work in writing. Most of us on here have been burned at 1 time or another by a bonding company who failed to pay us for the work we did on their case.
For example, alot of the time a fugitive case evolves into a full fledged missing persons case. You can literally spend hundreds of dollars on database fees, gas, vehicles, hotels, meals, etc. tracking your fugitive down. So ask up front what the bondspersons budget is and work within it. If the case is only paying a couple of hundred dollars, then by the time you cover your overhead plus split the fee with your partner you could end up in the red.
Another mistake alot of rookies make is releasing their work product to their client w/o being compensated for it. What I mean is this: Let's say you develop and pay for alot of intel.....database reports, police reports, criminal histories, court records, field interviews of everyone who knows the fugitive etc. You have a ton of time and money invested in the case, but you can't close it. So the bondsperson asks for the case back to re-issue to a different bounty hunter. Now you have just given away hundreds of dollars of YOUR work product absolutely free ! So make sure that when you return a case file, you remove your intel unless the bondsperson pays you for it.
Another dirty trick bonding companies will do is use your intel to close the case themselves behind your back, thus they don't have to pay you. You may share your intel with your client, thereby completing the puzzle for your client, and then he/she goes and picks up the defendant themselves or gets 1 of their cop buddies to do it, etc. There are hundreds of ways bonding companies have of beating you out of a paycheck.
Additionally, you will need to learn how to mitigate your clients liability via other methods than "beating the bushes" pays off. It's the old sayings of "work smarter, not harder", "maximize profits, minimize expenses" come into play.
Best of luck.