Also, if you from an education program or looking to recruit for one, i am not interested.

3) Should I first find a Managing Broker, then allow them to recruit agents or start building the entire team on my own?

We do hire from a different company now so we don't have to go through the recruitment process ourselves.

There is a shortage of skilled tradespeople and while I hear many focusing on recruiting people to these jobs, I’ve focused on changing what these jobs are!

Since I'll need two years of an active broker license before I can act as my own Broker in Charge (BIC) for managing other owner's properties, does anyone have advice on how to recruit a BIC?

They offered a Multi-Level Marketing option which they annoyingly over-advertised would pay for the education in no time if I recruited others, but I couldn't shake the fact that if the education was so good then why wouldn't they advertise that with the wealth of knowledge I would be receiving that I could pay for the classes..

Ya I hate hate hate those people selling "secrets" or trying to recruit on here its one of my biggest pet peeves. 

Just a preface, I am a former Accounting & Finance recruiter in NYC and have experience with real estate companies. 

So while it’s more difficult to recruit investors when your projections are conservative, it’s much easier to retain them.  

Short of recruiting Mrs.