On high level my “why” is to achieve financial independence.

I started as a brand new agent w/EXP in December and chose to be independent.

Having been a RE agent was what gave me the education and contacts to become independent. 

I would expect your Broker to break down responsibilities in your Independent Contractor agreement, but not everyone is that professional.If you're paying a 50/50 split, I would say the Broker should be paying that cost, along with the cost of signs and a few other things.

So long as you are comparing apples to apples here you're good, but I wanted to tidy up this verbiage.There will likely be two issues associated with the lot split:UtilitiesThe ParcelOnce you get all the utilities split to have separate services and the parcel split into two independent half-duplex parcels then you would be able to sell one of the them.   

It all boils down to being able to proving your intent to hold for rental, investment of business use should you be audited. 

And it was Texas independence day.

Thanks for the info @Stephen Brown, here are some maps of good areas to invest in, depending on your strategy.

Independent inspector?

I’m looking to expose the concept of building wealth and getting them involved so they “could” become financially independent (or at least be financially savvy) even if they decided this isn’t what they want to do full-time… or perhaps not at all.