He gets the balance when the job is done. 

If you are single or married with a small child, buying a duplex or 4plex should work well.  

Make sure the estimates are very detailed (scope, SF, $/sf, schedule, etc) to ensure that there is a clear dilation between contract work and change orders.

I want to bring on one more top agent and also hire another admin to take more work of my plate.On a personal side, we are going on 6 trips each year (sounds amazing, but I still work more days in a year than in my former corporate life, because I usually don't get weekends off).

Keep up the good work.

I did not do a separate criminal background check as I trusted the info from Zillow (Big lesson learned never to trust the Zillow data again in life).

@Jonathan Weinberger that has been a lot of work, really impressive pace!

Even if you know the owner like a brother, you need to do your checks and balances.

Do all your ckins and ckouts happen during that time they are working?   

No big deal, I worked with insurance and contractors to get the repairs done.