Dealing with government employees can be a very long, costly, and frustrating nightmare.

If you did find an investment company looking to bring on people its mostly they need employee's and not people who they are looking to train to eventually become their competition.

What if the federal government employees are furloughed and one lives in one of your properties?

Right or wrong, should a government employee take an interest, there may be huge costs involved in defending your actions.I do not recommend anyone play in the real estate finance world without extensive knowledge.

Will placing bids on the HUD website be affected by HUD employees not being able to work?

If you truly can, I'd build a business around that, put systems in place, hire employees and just crank them out.I'm guessing you're paying (purchase plus rehab) something closer to $40K for this property and doing "Flip This House" math to get to the $50K profit.

Check out the below, falling bonuses have troubling knock effects and other industries will have trouble taking up the slack:http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130122/BLOGS01/301229992#The average Goldman employee made $400k, and while I know the median is much lower, it's easy to see why the volatility is troubling.

You make sure you're not last in line to be left with the scraps after paying tax and employees.

My husband, who continues to work full time (excepting when he's a furloughed federal employee) and I built the company one property at a time and both worked full time professional positions for the the first 7 years/11 properties.

We're looking to expand and grow but have hard time with the policy and procedures to set us up to be ready to hire the employees.