Option 1 - Set monthly fee and a set lease up fee.  

 You can set up a partnership very simply order more complex depending on what you're trying to accomplish.

Stay encouraged my friend... set your goal and make it happen.

Technically that is true, but a good agent sets alerts for short sales and REOs that come back on the market (when they are most ripe) after a failed deal.3.

I have set my eyes on starting my career in Los Angeles, but I haven't fully committed for fear that the potential of a newbie getting washed out in a market as big and as fast-paced as LA.

Here is a link to the NCGS chapter on D-T Any NC real estate attorney can help with setting up a private party (non-bank) loan.

Instead of paying off the loan in 5 years, set a goal to pay it off in 2.5 years.   

There were also some small set backs.

The NPV is the Net Present Value of an income stream, discounted to the cost of capital (or required rate of return) and the IRR sets the NPV function = 0 to get a rate of return.

There are ways to set up your relationships with the subcontractors that make it less likely that they will be deemed to be employees.