Your boss seems to be extreme with this and won't change - unless you force it.Why don't you make a list of everything you do each for a week?

Cash flowing in the type of market we have is extremely difficult, especially with such a small down payment. 

Just depends on how extreme you want to take things.As far as financing, condos can be tough. 

Some jurisdictions are taking the statewide ADU rules and going much further extreme.  

It is extremely important that we get all claims submitted soon for investors.

Quote from @Kyle Deboer: Being a beginner, the only markets that I am really tapped into at the moment are all extremely mainstream (zillow, realtor, etc.) and I see everyone saying I should learn to tap into underground markets but I can't seem to find anyone explaining how...

So the probability of someone replacing their W2 income is extremely low.  

I just started my direct mail campaign and it took a whole Sunday (3:30-9PM) to do 200 letters and this was about as automatic as the average Joe could get:Printed Yellow letters using Officejet printer (Paper from Amazon)Printed envelopes using the same printer (Envelopes from Dollar Store)Bought 400 forever stamps from the Post Office to create the "genuine" effectStill, folding and stuffing papers was an extremely underestimated variable.

It's obviously a lot more complicated to compare the different business models, making the blanket statement "Us commishes are 3x higher" extremely flawed logic.

Take an extreme example and say one person owned 50% of all bitcoin.