I was an employee of the Government for 14 years and left two years ago to become a contractor to the Government in Denver, Colorado and other places.

You could have you IRA purchase an LLC that does prop management, but you in no way could be affiliated with that company.If your goal is to grow your retirement and work, you can do a solo401K, which I'm just starting to look into and hopefully I am stating this correctly and Jon Holdman may be able to clarify.You would open your PM business and designate the solo401K as you employees (you being the only employee) retirement plan.

I usually get 5 different "answers" from 5 different county employees each time I call.

If the city sends someone out to take care of mowing or fixing water, the city figures it is their people's time and the property owner, now or in the future, needs to pay for city employee's time.

There are matters of deminishing returns, economic quanities purchased (like paint) adding additional employees, etc. but the basic assumptions need to come from comps and he has that.

I was thinking of an actual partnership, in which two partners are active, you pay yourself some minimal salary as a full time employee and then the rest is paid via quartlery dividends when paying yourself.

In like manner a stock symbolizes ownership in a company that usually owns real factories and inventories of real products with real patents, real employees, real customers, real patents, real branding.

@George Foster I spoke with a HML from Texas and he said he might be interested in coming to Chicago meet up.

For my day job, I am the General Manager for a construction company with around 20 employees, so I do have 10 years or so of construction experience.

I need way more than that.Needless to say that I have stopped the 401k contributions (only contributing up to my employees match).Given the fact that I do have money, but I can't cash it.