I would like to pay people more and create a bonus system, etc. especially as my business grows to keep good "scouts".Has anyone done something similar?

One of my tenants just exercise their option to buy, so I sold it after 15 months.Purchase Price $77KRehab Costs: $20KRent: $1300 with $200 given as option bonusAgreed to Sale Price: $139KOption Period: 3 yearsSeller gave me $4K in option consideration and through monthly rent bonus, they earned another $3K ($200 per month for 15 mo).

There is a lot of competition when buying these assets because of the exposure they are seeing.  

Consider appreciation as a bonus - If it appreciated, great, if not, no problem.

Asset managers that REO brokers work with many times get base plus a bonus on the files they move.

About half of my class if not slightly more have offers from their summer internships which pay the market rate which is still 160, with about a 10k bonus.

With fully-rented out + a bonus room, income is $3700/month.

Any particular listings or local resources to get a better exposure?

I will just think of it as a huge bonus for the year when I sell.

We all know about the legal reasons/protective measures to go to an LLC but the paradox of being "conservative" and paying off one mortgage in full but in reality putting all your legal exposure and hard earned Portfolio CF in one basket really made me take a step back from the Snowball/Focus camp.