My first employees, my new partners, my new JV partners, and eventually taking on private money investors (Oh NO!

i had questions about the marketplace that not even my CPA could answer. what we found on health insurance is to have an employee then get a group plan was cheaper in the long run for us and a real bonus to your employee or employee's

I own a self operated carpentry company with no employees.   

I'm also married, trying to protect three teenagers from their own stupidity, run a business with seven employees, etc.I consider myself a success story, but I have C-class rentals in a small market nobody knows/cares about, and I don't have the infectious personality that makes for good TV.

But beyond that, I’m really hoping to foster long-term relationships and am eager to find ways to not just benefit from your wisdom but also to give back to this community in any way I can.

I'm a W2 employee who might move closer to their parents to help them in their later stages of life.

Even if you were an employee of the company a savvy SEC attorney will tell you that you need to be paid a salary and not commission based.The promote point has been addressed so I will not add to that.

I also don't plan to do "real estate full time" after retirement - just live off the passive income from the rentals we bought.My "W-2" job is actually another startup that I'm #2 employee in with considerable equity.

@Dave Foster, I thought about that.

@Dave Foster That's definitely something I was thinking about, and even potentially rolling it into a duplex for some house hacking potential.