Hiring employees in a management company

[Grant Kemp]

I've started a property management company and need to hire on an employee to help handle the load, but I'm having trouble figuring out HOW to actually hire them. I have the person already lined up and ready to go, but I want to do this the right way.

So far it seems I will make them a w2 employee, but I want to be able to pay them according to how many properties they're working on, and not pay them hourly. We're obviously just starting out, and I only have about 20 properties ATM, which does not allow me to pay them enough to qualify as an exempt/salaried employee. Is the only other employment option "hourly"?

In short, how should I structure my employee's pay when I want to pay them 3% per property they help manage? (in Texas)

Thanks!

[Grant Kemp]

The reason I wasn't going 1099 is because, as far as I can tell, the IRS wouldn't let me qualify them as such since I "have the right to control what the worker does and how they do their job". Because of their definition of "employee" it seems I need to w-2 her. Thus the conundrum