Certainly I have business costs over and above my contractor costs, but again, I know how to run a business (and even wasted a bunch of money on an MBA to make sure of it :).

I am also a graduate MBA student at Babson College in Wellesley.

I'm currently in grad school studying to get my MBA and want to get started with my investment journey!

Those of you have earned your MBA’s will appreciate segregation of roles and responsibilities.

I was able to finish all the way through my MBA while working enough to provide for my family and start investing. 

Just to give you options...if you do wish to delay the "real world" a bit, you can always go for the MBA. 

Finally, (this feels like it's turning into an essay) another idea I've been strongly considering is beginning my own property management business.

Tyler Mulcahy, MBA

Ellis your response in particular expands beyond mere prose   wandering perilously close to the realm of literature, something one might have expected to read in a short story or essay :)   You are surely right in the observation that the fairness of the terms of a deal is always shaped and conditioned by whichever  side of the table one is sitting on.  

I'm not sure I would want to leave the W2 world just yet, even if I do relocate to TX, as I am [in theory] in the prime earning years of my career (~10 years post-MBA), so I would probably move to Austin or Dallas if I go that route.