We may also rent out the in-law unit to help cover travel expenses.Question:Should we hire a property management company to look after things while we're gone?

Now I plan on getting my RE License in August but for the time being, is it fine if I do these deals while hiring a broker so I technically won't be brokering without a license?

Say $100 a month to start then after 6 months another $100 until he gets the idea and moves on his own.I might also get the VA involved and see if they could get him relocated peacefully.Lastly if I absolutely had to have him out, I would hire a large law firm specializing in evictions to do all the noticing, and carry out the process.

I have $700 to my name and growing (I'm a freelance software developer).

Is the design up to the contractor or do you hire an architect or interior designer?

If they haven't paid for any marketing for it, I'm not sure why they would want to be difficult about it.Ultimately you could really make things tough for them so that they waste their marketing money and then the contract eventually expires anyway and you hire your dad instead.That being said, is there any reason why you signed a listing agreement with them given that you knew your dad was an agent? 

Then he proceeded to hire employees that would live there 24 hours a day and manage the assisted living facility for him.So he bought the property and then retrofitted it to be an assisted living facility.

I am not going to hire a property management company for this one, at least not right away.  

I hired a window company to replace them and usually find that hiring specialists is more time consuming (when building your team) but typically results in faster project turn-around and better control over each aspect of the rehab. i.e. fire the ones that suck without impacting other subs.

But we have came across our first road block.This is what is happening 12/3/15 we hired an architect that was referred to us by a real estate agent (which we do not know or have ever done business with, we got his number from a sign realtors put up on properties he sells acre lots and offers to design your custom home as well, his sign was up in the community where we bought our acre) so we called him and he told us of the architect he works with and who has done the design for the majority of the homes there, well they are beautiful homes so we called him up and met with him on 12/3/15 at his home office.