Considering you're literally paying pennies on the dollar for a property and in this particular case the gentlemen is new to tax deed investing I felt it most beneficial to him to hire out this piece of work as it could have disastrous effects if done incorrectly.

DO NOT chase business by lowering prices, performing service for which you are not compensated at your desired rate of income, giving away consulting advice to people who will likely shop price, or accept any piece of business outside your field of expertise.4.

You establish a employee-employer piece work job or per hour, 3. 1099 does not work, Yup!

For my own piece of mind I am thinking of this as a back up plan if it takes longer than 30 days to sell.  

Is it possible to sell 1/2 my interest in a PRIME piece of land that I own with HUGE upward potential? 

Look at the instruction manual- some of those things have 50-60+ hardware pieces.

I'll try to make this short and clear, but there are a lot of moving pieces. 

There's a lot of missing pieces here.

I want to purchase my first real estate investment piece with house hacking and I want to be as prepared as possible.

One last piece of advice: As previously mentioned, tenant screening is going to be one of the single most important things you do as an investor.