For work she does tech recruiting and works remotely, while I work as a project manager for a custom home, design-build company, based in Los Angeles.

Hey BP,First post in here, short intro: I’m 25, Technical recruiter living in Austin Texas, just bought my first house in Austin July 2021.I’m keen to get into REI, not necessarily in Austin or even in Texas for that matter. 

I see successful agents making $700k a year, I see the broker taking splits based off of my efforts with recruiting, and candidly what I get in return is not sufficient...3) I want to be able to help my family.

Then they recruit you into their coaching program.

Every new recruit in my company has to read it as part of their training. 

I can guarantee you there aren’t that many people who would do job hopping, maybe in technology worlds but most office workers would choose stability and benefits rather than going through recruitment process in the hope of a 20% raise.

Someone at exp realty sent me a recruitment video.

and refunds to guests2) Hire amazing people - cleaners, handyman, recruit some neighbors to help fill in the gaps, & self-manage or hire an offshore VA to manage the property if you'd rather make yourself rich instead of making a local property manager rich (more on that here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/... )And make sure that your cleaners and handyman are not only doing a top-notch job of keeping the house in pristine condition, but they are also reporting to you (or to your PM or to your offshore asst) every little thing that needs to be upgraded or replaced so that you can stay on top of it and take care of things before you hear it from your guests in the form of guest complaints and bad reviews.

I am a bank recruiter so I know they are out there.

We came out of 2013 with a need for 1.5M housing units that had not been built from 2008-2012 for many reasons related to the global meltdown. since then we finally get the fires of the economy stoked and rolling again but there are supply and demand issues.So as we have seen the demand go up for workers and tradesman we have realized that from 208-2015 while we were going through the great recession all our tradesman had been retiring, retraining for a different line of work, or failing to recruit new apprentices.