Mcdonald's hits their franchisees with tons of fees and has garnered it's easier to offer support and collect than to manage tons of employees store to store.There are a few parent corporate owned stores but not many.Mcdonald's doesn't pay very much rent most of them sell for 2 million or so.

For insurance reasons, she can't hire employees (yet), so she runs it 100% by herself. 

Lastly, it’s not usually in your benefit to let anyone know you own the property, if you act as a humble employee, just trying to keep your job and have everyone like you, no one will try to get over on you.

I'm not exactly excited for my funds to be tied up for a year while the house is being built but I could borrow against myself (TSP - government employee) or sell some stock/use some of my cash ~$130k.

Now if you have a health care company paying the credit part is no longer an issue and they do background checks on all employees.

Before purchasing, I would make sure to figure out your area's vacancy rate and figure out what the largest corporations are that offer housing to their employees are.

If that isn’t an option I would reach out to the regional manager or someone higher up (you can look at the property management company employees on linked in to find out who is in upper management) and give them the option to make things right with you, or inform them that you’ll be taking civil action.

Yes, a team can help but don't be an employee in someone else's system, learn to build your own business. 

So you're going to hire them as Subs or employees?

Every employee at Amazon and many large tech companies are paid in a similar manner.