Eventually to really scale you're going to need to go beyond friends and family.

Figure out how to keep your hard earn dollar in your pocket ultimate your going to need bigger pockets.

If you're willing to go to "rougher" neighborhoods you can go cheaper, but even then you're going to need the income, financials, and such to be able to secure a loan to get a house. 

Otherwise I use farrow and ball (colormatched by SW) Ammonite (very pale greige)and Purbeck Stone (two tones darker in same palette).

I never want to see a southwestern peach wall again. 90s on houses was lots of jewel tones.

Unless you already have a pile of cash, you are going to need to buy below market and usually buy fixer uppers so that you can add value by renovating them.

I'd like to get a 12 unit or more with $200 CF per door but realize I'm going to need to bring in partners or get seller financing with lower down payment.

To succeed in a new market, and really a new industry for us, we're going to need to develop a solid team.

Compass can recruit as heavily as it wants, but the top agents that produce most of the commissions are still going to go with whatever brokerage gives them the best deal, meaning Compass is going to need to retain the hefty commission model or its top producers that it lured will just jump ship again, most top agents I've seen have flipped brokerages half a dozen times or more, they keep a generic gmail account for all business so they don't have to deal with the hassle of switching email accounts when they flip brokers.

 @Anita PengJust as @Chris Mason mentioned you're going to need him to refinance the home to get you off the mortgage.