The fee should be relatively small compared to the investment in a meaningful direct mail campaign.You may also want to chat with a few title companies about what kind of transactions they'd be comfortable with.

A PMC has to deal with whatever property you buy on a DAILY basis - no other team member does.

In any case there is no taxable event yet.As far as your brother is concerned, it again depends on the nature of the transaction. 

There are daily Zoom calls on multiple different subjects. 

There's lots of tax planning on this and I would suggest to take a professional opinion on how to structure a transaction in a way that you can make it into capital gain tax or reduce self-employment tax.

The borrowing against a 401k could potentially come in handy for a fix-and-flip or BRRR type transactions as you can quickly return the funds to the 401k.

I have been combing through the MLS looking for deals daily, but im unsure of how I would even fix up a property as I dont know of any builders out here, nor do I have a crew to get the work done.

My property manager uses AppFolio, which is fine for transaction level detail and a few dashboards.

And by the way, in transactions I would always be the seller, so to me what you said is very favorable.

After she retired, she took over the daily operations.