Perhaps you eventually decide to open your own brokerage where you can train licensees and profit off of their sales production.

Is Fathom specific to the Virginia area or is it an online brokerage. 

Once you’ve paid in a considerable amount of your wealth year after year as you’re building you’re business (I built an insurance brokerage from the ground up but new to real estate investing), you become frustrated at the lack of competence and accountability you find even in qualified CPA’s as well as the excessive amount you seem to pay Uncle Sam. 

A lot of people don’t realize this, but in addition to real estate agents selling stuff, they are also being sold, every brokerage, every title company, even lenders, have courses on literally scripts, how to build out your social media, how to find fsbo listings etc, truth is none of these are effective, pretty much the only way to be a successful agent is either ton of ad spend or the hard work of meeting people in person through events meetups etc, but brokerages make money by head count, even title and lenders are happy if you close a few deals a year with them, so they sell this stuff to agents who than use those scripts on you, it’s a whole prymond scheme lol

I work for an investment real estate brokerage here in Greenville if anyone is looking for more info on the market feel free to reach out with questions.

I still do this method, even if I don't intend to have it managed.If you're keen on going the paid route for speed, you could try convincing your brokerage team to purchase STR Insights (preferred over AirDNA) for the team to use with clients.

He has strong liquidity and I’m licensed for sales brokerage and I work full time in the Capital Markets space of CRE.

Usually we have a few thousand dollars each year to invest after we max out these accounts (and it usually just goes into a taxable brokerage account where we use it to buy Berkshire Hathaway or Markel or some other stock that does not pay a dividend).That extra money was actually how we ended up buying this duplex - thought it might be a good way to diversify our investments.I was wondering if I could use net income from our duplex (assuming we have net income, and by net income I mean what we report to the IRS) to fund a solo 401k or some other kind of tax-advantaged plan?

Many brokerage firms say they offer self-directed accounts, but when you ask about real estate, they will not hold that type of asset.

I'm completely fine with this but I'm wondering if it would be difficult to find a brokerage and if its feasible to start and eventually grow into a full-time career.