Once you have your team, keep recruiting, keep looking for opportunities i.e. deals. 

It's a sign that you are willing to move to make your first investment.What you should do while you are dealing with your first investment is to learn about how to recruit investors and/or Partners so you can start purchasing apartments but start off small and work your way up in quantity as you learn. 

Not a 1 person crew and 2 people in an office and an owner, all who get a piece of the pie.You could also try recruiting someone out of a homeless shelter or rehab. 

Prove TODAY that you can find excellent deals, recruit the best/fastest labor, and complete projects on time and under budget. 

This would really give me an insight as to what agents truly value in a brokerage and would help me recruit better. 

I also turn my tenants into my own little army of recruiters to help me find new potential tenants and if they refer me to somebody that I end up accepting I give them 200 bucks cash.

What do you charge for recruiting new tenants?

You are more likely going to rent to a young single military recruit who tend to be riskier tenants.

If you score high enough to be deemed a quality recruit, you have some leverage with the recruiter.

He got prison AND had to payback 7 mil lol“The scheme involved kickbacks from condominium builders during the 2008 financial crisis, kickbacks that were hidden from lenders to convince them to fund loans in excess of actual purchase priceGroup members bought units for themselves and their relatives and on behalf of “straw buyers” with good credit scores who were recruited under the guise that the purchase was an investment opportunity that required no down payment and would generate rental income, prosecutors said.