I am not a W2 employee so constantly limited by my DTI when it comes to bank lending even though I am savvy with saving, house hacking, etc to keep my cost of living down.

The person managing it, is a goverment employee it's a sheep compared to deal makers of investment companies. 

The information I've received from not just my old employees, but employees on their own staff, is that the issues I see (and that are being relayed to me by previous clients) are systemic and nationwide.

My advice if you could build a small team with payment of 50% or some sort of percentage of your spreads as payment .8 director of your marketing campaigns it will be that employees job to buy things like the Deal Automator that makes marketing easier and more consolidated and less all over the place Carry what did Deal Automator does is take all tools you need as an REI and consolidated into one platform

While I do have employees to handle other tasks, I do all of my own biz dev. 

Designate someone in your office to be the “Suzy” that talks like a low paid employee who is indifferent to a result and is the one who requests for her mgmt company.

Employees shuffle around like zombies.  

At the end of the day, we’re running a business, and we’ve got employees and marketing costs to take care of, so we need to make sure it all adds up.

got it, but the business entity in question wether LLC, corp, or whatever the case... does it need to be 100% owned by my wife since she can position herself as "full time" investor as I'm a full time W2 employee currently. 

In the active business, I have employees.