He's the director of operations for a large general contractor with 52 employees under him at the moment.

Remember you can always 1099 employees as independent contractors to avoid the Human Resources requirements and salaries and wages.

@Brian Kane, in my state (and likely others) certain activities can only be performed by the owner, an employee of the owner, or a licensed agent/broker representing the owner.

would you hire as 1099 subs and expect each to have their own insurance, or would you employ them as w-2 employees with you paying liability and workmanship comp?

Now you are at 180k but with 100 properties you now have inflated costs. office cost, employees, etc.

Most of my employees are working on investing in real estate.

I have two employees in my real estate business in Silver Spring, MD that would like to attend the REA on Tuesday and we are looking to join some local real estate groups in the area.

I am currently a full time W2 Employee.

Do not do anything else other than that or you're at risk of doing it incorrectly.Honestly, the biggest PITA about this process is the bank employee starring at you blankly when you ask them to do this and having to wait 45 minutes for them to open up the account (when it should probably take 5 minutes).

I saw huge influx of Cummins employees living in Columbus.