I probably overstated my relationship to the current tenant in that I do work at the same company as them, along with 14000 other employees.

We used to use the cheapest guy in the truck, now we have internal Maint technician staff that are salaried employees and have all had criminal background checks done on them, actually every employee has had this done. 

I suppose the fear of breaking out of "employee-ism" and having to rewire my brain outside of those confines is causing the fear to win, but now I understand that this is just the crucial step before the launch of a successful individual.

Houston's market has somehow impacted by the oil prices as big companies had let go some employees.  

My end goal is to have employees take over some of the individual responsibilities, and then I will manage the employees, but I need a bit more growth before I start moving in that direction.  

But we also would like to go forward with the deal as it will be a great boost to our brand new company.Hoping someone here has experience in this area and could give us some advice on either the process for having employees, or what to say to the property owner that could convince him to employ the on site managers himself.

Yes I agree that many plans offer a smaller match as low as 50% match for the employee investment, up to 4-6% of base pay.

As for Wholesalers - Absolutely  "LOVE THEM",we treat them as another marketing channel - we have to give attention to - no different than direct mail campaigns need attention.We love to draft off their marketing money (direct mail, bandit signs), we also draft off theirsweat equity ( boots on the ground) - They go into our data bases - and they get emailed from us every week - We find out most of them are younger / and just starting out / and pretty good on-lineFrom my experiences - you show me a bad employee - and i will show you a bad boss!!!  

(She is from South Africa) I plan to manage it for them as part owner of the company and as an employee.

They're generally low wage employees, not overly sophisticated, and their allegiance to the owner is probably hit and miss.