In fact I just hired a contractor full time to manage all my rehabs and he is technicely paid from another company because all my payroll goes through my real estate business.

I mean I get it for SFH as investors are competing with retail buyers, and I get it for lower price investment deals let's say under $500K  where there may be a lot of inexperienced investors buying up properties but presumably the people picking up multimillion dollar properties are sophisticated investors.

These really aren't the kind of arrangements the divisions are spending a lot of resources on enforcing.You are correct that if your friend put you on payroll, you can manage his(?)

After I clean my current list, I want to utilize more sophisticated list-building techniques for the campaign beginning in August or September. 

These are rarely advertised and most commercial RE sellers are sophisticated, more so than residential.  

I wouldn't get 'sophisticated' and transfer assets to a spouse I'm not married to (?) 

I plan to use a sophisticated system once I reach 100+ people.I don't have a way to see if my emails are even being read. from what ive asked, they are just going to junk mail.

For real estate, 2016 will see investors, developers, lenders, users, and service firms relying upon intense and sophisticated coordination of both their offensive and defensive game plans.

So it has to balance the municipal budget with property tax and not rely on the payroll tax that other nearby boroughs are receiving.

I come from the corporate world with a background in Human Resources/ Payroll, that sort of thing.