I have one contractor who has a great employee --- just bought a new 1/2 Ford F-150.

Maybe your next person will be a local employee working 5hr/day Mon, Wed, Thurs. 

Good tenants make being a landlord fun and easy though, so be sure to ask all the appropriate questions during screening, call references like past landlords, current employees and always pull credit, criminal and eviction reports. 

How do you prove he is not an employee?

We have a grad students at ECU and hospital employees in all of our rentals.

Seems like a useful tool besides having to set up a C-corp and pay myself as an employee which I do not like in the least.  

More of a employee employer dialogue.

You can administer plan investments, but should not be acting as an "employee" of the plan or errand boy, ... and certainly not swinging hammers.  

My advice is you will not need a LLC until you hire employees.

Once you know you are thinking like an entrepreneur and not w2 employee or victim mentality than you can get more specific with real estate sales books or rehab estimation books.