This question has come up a few times with prospective clients recently, so I thought I'd shed some light on it.Generally, being an employee in a real estate business does not automatically qualify you for REPS unless you own at least 5% of the employer.

$30 is what one of our employees is charged by her landlord at another property and it doesn't include lawn mowing.

There are exemptions for LLCs/Corps that employee more than 20 employees or have annual income of more than $5 million, because every body know money launderers never have more than 20 employees or make more than $5 million a year.

Michael,Your signature block has the BiggerPockets logo.Are you an employee?

I had 20 employees. by 2011 I had 2 and we disbanded what I am proud of though is no lender took a short sale from me..

I am going to do everything that I can to make the stay go as smooth as possible so that they continue to use me in the future for other employees doing projects in our area. 

Too new for results, yet feel pretty comfortable, after meeting some of the employees, and meeting Janet, all are very genuine and are appreciative, not pompous. 

I work for General Dynamics Electric Boat which has decades long contracts with the US government and the turnover rate is relatively high in the company so my thoughts are if I could choose a place that is within commute distance there and within the price range of the average employee that maybe that could be a great idea but I want to know if people think that is too much of an assumption and risk to make?

If a company provides a specific uniform that must be worn by all employees on a job, then it probably is a legitimate business expense.

There are tons of ways to invest, but finding how to do it that suits YOU will help foster that passion and growth.