Now, most of these smaller banks may only have 12 employees or so.

If I need both, than I guess I would be the owner of my lending COMPANY, as well as the licensed MLO sole employee of my own company?

Grow the real estate consulting business and hire full-time employees to assist with the business.

Or could I manage my own company without it sinceI wouldn’t be a salaried employee? 

At CPA firms where I've worked we've mad the admin get get notary stamp- so a small specialized REI CPA where it's only him or maybe him and 1 employee, not a value to him.  

I haven't spoken with any lenders just yet and I am a little concerned about the fact that I am an independent contractor so I don't have the same consistent records that many salary employees have.

What if I put him on my company's payroll then as an employee he can, right?

I own about $750,000 of stock in a single company that I would like to liquidate in the next year or two (I was an early tech company employee).

@Victor RobinsonIf you are self-employed with no full-time w-2 employees, you can set up a Solo 401k & rollover funds from a non-Roth IRA as a tax-free direct rollover and then invest in real estate.Solo 401k vs.

First, as realtors I presume that (i) you are self-employed; and (ii) you do not have any full-time w-2 employees (i.e. working 1000 hours or more per year) working for your self-employed business or otherwise working for you.