Let’s pretend that Jeff is married but his spouse is not an employee of the restaurant (the spouse can be an owner) and that Jeff has no other employees.

That's all wholesaling is, it's brokering real estate except instead of being up front & telling the distressed seller that you'll sell their property for X amount & take X amount as your commission / fee you are taught to lie to the seller & pretend you are going to buy the property while you secretly attempt to "assign" your contract.It doesn't work.

But most people on BiggerPockets don’t know me so I don’t pretend to have that large of a following or influence.

In about 2 minutes this is what I did:Entered this prompt into chatGPT:"Pretend to be the host of a short term rental.

But let's pretend I am buying it for a straight $80k.

Yes, but then, they never pretend to run for the 2nd highest government position...

A lot of people want to pretend that 1 year will never happen, but once you accept that it will, you're more likely to accept that the 50% Rule more-than-likely applies to your property as well.

Your spouse is probably aware of the fact that RE investing takes time, and involves risk, so don't try to pretend it isn't so.

An assistant, is just that....an actual assistant that works For the agent, Under their supervision, helping them in their agent capacity....not a pretend assistant/wholesaler.

Another trick to counter the "friend as a landlord" trick is to call first and pretend to a potential tenant and watch them get flustered as you ask about technical lease terms.And to play devil's advocate, you also have to take the rental market into consideration.