I imagine it can be tricky without face-to-face interaction, but it sounds like you’ve got a solid approach.Honestly, I don't have a process for establishing trust with sellers other than being polite and professional.

I get FinTech is a high-risk activity, but imagine the industry will consolidate to one or a few strong players.

These guys tend to be 1 man shows, and are generally drowning in work and would love someone to pour into. 

How many people every year pour out there life savings to come for a vacation, just from TX, not even mentioning the US or rest of world. 

I imagine this is a similar model to Redfin's associate agent program that pays by hour/tour.

You can typically change the way the entity works - may or may not make a tax difference, but you're only 6 months in so I imagine you're showing a paper loss anyways? 

@Steven Wetherill I can’t imagine your taxes are only $500 for the year.

The houses would be looking at I'd imagine would be about 7 to 800 k taxes would be about 4K hire a year.

He told them imagine the best steak ever in front of you.  

Imagine if it cost 1000 to send out 50 letters but half of them responded and half of those wanted an offer and half of those accepted an offer and half of those closed and half of those resold for a net 50k.