Given the bureacracy and corruption of the city government, I recommend hiring an experienced tax attorney to fight any assessment.

Or just start out collecting a fee or hire a third party to manage.As for a buyout down the road, you could put an agreement in place from day one that specifies a set time period that you will buy out the partner.

You will trust too quickly (hire a fake guru) or never trust at all (analysis paralysis) and find yourself stagnating.If you aren't working on yourself as a person, you aren't working on your business.

I can't do anything myself besides paint, so I hired a contractor because my real estate agent recommended that he could do alot of things and would be cheap.

I agree, hiring a real estate attorney would be the best way.

having just you repped is fine in my opinion but the dual sided thing with an actualy listing contract gets a bit dicy for me personally.

A situation happened to me recently (my fault completely), I hired a landscaper, did not have a full contract into place and just had text threads between us..

Once the rep helps you with this, then you ask for their supervisor (since they make more money on having calls transferred) and promote how well that rep helped you; then, you ask the supervisor for the same thing.This was told to me in a seminar (a guru one at that); however, this is dependent on your personal ability to not spend the CC's.  

Unfortunately, the hours you spend managing your plumbing company likely wouldn’t count toward real estate professional status (REPS) hours.

You could arrange to have your cleaners accept the deliveries at the property or hire a local handyman to do same and even assemble furniture.