My brother works full time doing photography and video editing for a Fortune 500 company in Cleveland, and also freelances.

And if for some reason the lease is in a Word doc or other editable format, it might be a good idea to look it over before signing it.  

There are couple advantages, but here is the most important:- You can map the unit and tenant to a property and anytime you enter a transaction, it will automatically prefill the property name- Has 15 custom fields with formatting whereas in Pro and Premier you have only 7- Payroll is included (Only in gold and platinum edition)- Unlimited data- Advanced Reporting is included!

We also video taped the presentation and edited it into sections so that prospective investors could watch it at their leisure like Brian Burke spoke about.  

Edit: The current owner does not live in the property.

(I had to edit this post because I just realized you said your friend bought a "NEWLY" built house.)If you are referring to a new build from a developer this makes more sense why the number are not working.

I humbly offer just a couple of edits to your well-crafted sentence:My company finds motivated seller opportunities for other investors by doing our own marketing and generating off market deals for serious cash buyers ...

SF has seen double digit growths and it's slowing down, yet, still growing.

Can you dig it?...

If you 1099 the money, they have to pay taxes on it ... so it will be a good litmus test for you to see how your contractor(s) react.Also, it may not be the worst idea to create a business entity of some kind ... eventually, it could make your taxes a little easier to manage (so you don't have to do one enormously scary tax return)Edit: try to find a CPA that is familiar with REI, that will make questions like this easy to answer in the future.