I am in my late twenties, previously I was in investment banking and recently just bought into my first franchise.

The We buy Houses franchise uses Redbell Re.

My ultimate goal is retirement but I am also dancing around with buying into franchises...

This newfound view on life led me to join a commercial cleaning franchise later that year.

I haven't updated my resume on careerbuilder, monster, etc in years because the only thing I was getting out of it was a crapton of solicitations to open my own insurance franchise.  

KW is a franchise, so each office will have different rules regarding this.

In response to your quest for broker recommendations, I recommend interviewing some independent brokers in addition to the large franchises.  

Many people have bought franchises that could not operate them if their life depended on it, and have done well with them.  

We are buying a plot of land where we are planning to build some retail space (in talks with a national franchise already that likes location).We did the Phase 1, which found nothing.

Assuming Will operates out of an S-Corp (he's a smart guy so I'm positive he's doing this) and nets $350k, by deducting his lease payment he avoids 15.3% self-employment tax, a 1.5% CA franchise tax on net income, a blended CA income tax rate of 7.98% and a blended federal rate of 26.1% for a total of 50.88%.