Having been a landlord for a decade, and self managing most of that time, creating a portfolio of rentals that support you, and presumably replaces your decent salary is going to take a while and become a lot of work, even if you hire out the management, you will still need quite a few rentals and that is a full time asset manager role, and likely takes a lot more equity than you have.Also, your 300-400k liquid = 250-340k once you pay your long term capital gains, or less if you are looking at short term gains.  

The judge stated the federal government cannot exercise power that congress has not given them.

If so go exercise that with consultation of your attorney.   

Eg, base plate, pier and beam, p-trap, city supply, shingles, etc2. what the roles of the following people are as well as what their motivations are: lender, appraiser, inspector, realtor, wholeseller, general contractor, city, sub-contractor, buyer, seller3.

I have a background in the commercial cleaning/facilities maintenance industry where I currently am in a sales role, so I'm constantly trying to improve this part of my skillset.

Exercise caution and diligence.Much success!

We also learned how supplemental loan played a role in this.

I'm curious, as a new agent that has little knowledge of the technical process of the role, is there a large downside of not having a traditional brokerage and the support system that comes with it?

How did you go about defining your roles?

Whenever not sure...Use this simple mental exercise.