My thoughts are tying up a house, doing the design/plans, getting a after repair appraisal, selling them the house and making some money on the front end then build in the remaining of my profit as the design firm?

Ryan:  I own a debt and equity firm that arranges financing for commercial and multifamily real estate across the country.  

Not many contractors actually have those internal unless they are really huge construction firms. 

Hi Steven, if you are still looking, the National Creditors Bar Association (NARCA) has a law firm directory search.

I am about to pull the trigger on a condo in Pasadena, CA and upon digging into the financials of the HOA discovered that they are funded at about 30% of what the third party HOA analysis firm would consider a full reserve.

Now I'm just trying to figure out the interaction of owning and operating an investment firm and working for a Broker.

It is my firm belief that homeowners do not know how drastically their bottomline is affected by selling with these unethical companies.BEFORE YOU SELL WITH ANY COMPANY ASK THEM "HOW MUCH MONEY WILL I WALK AWAY WITH?"

I'm currently an IT consultant but worked at a CPA firm for 6 years before becoming a consultant.  

Note: If you see Real Estate investing as your new career and you really...really...really but really want a job, work with a real estate firm in investing, a developer, a hard money lender or someone like that so you learn faster.

A few months before I graduated a landed a $75k job with a tech firm in Culpeper.