Hiring a real estate investment manager—and that’s what you’re doing when you make an investment—is no different from hiring an employee: You want the best person possible in that job and you want to pay them a fair price for their contribution.

Quicken loans alone has five locations and 14,000 employees with plans to add another 1100 more just announced.  

If you become your own employee, then there's W2, withholding, self employment - - - nasty tax consequences. 

I have worked for this company for almost 10 yrs and am known to be a very valuable employee.

If I take my social before 67, I'm a young 60 😊, I can only make 15k but I think it's w2 income, not investmentMy path was to work my job, I am industrial electrician, and buy real estate and work nights and weekends I'm just blue collar guy, employee mindset, that worked to change itI'm no superstar by any meansI have a 401 k, that will be withdrawn to buy more houses 😎

Well this particular site has 110 employees.

And my profit margins was no less than 8% of job costs.As I grew my business I went from employee to overhead expense because my duties changed from carpenter to manager and sales full time.

Although they are not looking for other clients now, who knows maybe they'll add a employee down south later. 

As we grew, we replaced the resident managers and began hiring leasing agents as employees and paying them a percent of gross.  

Most people I've talked to who work for a company don't get the benefits of being a W2 Employee, they are 1099'd get up to 50% (after you hit their milestones which could be 1-3 years out) and are responsible for taxes, training, equipment, and building up their own network.