Can you afford to pay someone $40k per year to manage part of the business?

Finished my MBA (Business Analytics) in September and this work was part of my thesis.An official proforma has not been conducted.

Any other sympathy is unfortunately just Poor Business Practice.  

They stated it was none of our business. 

@Christopher Alley we use a lot of private money in the rehab business, and I have never paid any up front fees. 

Basically its a big credit card that I can now use for any business related purpose, in my case Ill use it to do more deals.So here is where the 8 unit comes into play.

I know some municipalities allow the property owner to obtain permits but  that in itself is a huge issue in many areas and secondarily insurance is critical in this business.

The homeowner insurance market right now is a dumpster fire with carriers refusing to write business and creating incredibly tight underwriting guidelines.

We started looking at coaching programs and some of these things just seem ridiculous at 20-40 grand, and some seem more like life coaching programs as opposed to real estate programs. we don't want to syndicate we really would just like to find someone that we can bounce deals / ideas off of and have them assist in underwriting and giving us a better sense of security that we are doing the right thing.

Usually it takes them weeks to respond and they come up with some crazy stuff like by business is paying for the trip and need to pay with a certified check outside the platform.