My goal is to gradually wean myself out of being an employee to an employer.

If estimated cost is given, the landlord shall furnish the tenant with copies of paid receipts or a certification of actual costs of repairs of damage if the work was performed by the landlord’s employees within 30 days from the date the statement showing estimated cost was furnished to the tenant.Every Landlord should remember one very basic rule: you can put anything in a contract but that doesn't mean it will stand in a court of law. 

But at the end of the day as most people have mentioned those are just employees.

I am a former employee of VRBO/Homeaway.

Having a repair business and 5 employees helps me keep the labor to a fraction of what it would cost someone who had to hire a GC.  

You can have 50 plus properties and spend your (or your employees) time issuing quit notices, chasing up after eviction paperwork and going to court or you can have them spend that time building on relationships with tenants and working with the ones that want to keep paying rent. 

I guess the employees decided there was a better cash flow system than what we think of here on BP;) I can'r recall ever paying with cash at their office, I usually have certified funds.

Research will show big companies buying homes for their employees to stay when in town.

Receptionist was officially an employee of the owner but answered the phones for all of us and she processed our mail and greeted our clients.

.- Not only do you need to convince the underwriter, but you need to convince them that a gov't employee at HUD will be convinced as well.