Keep us posted, Scott - I'm interested to know what you hear back.

Engage...

I don't really get your beef with that. She did in fact make over $400k/year in commissions. No business is pure profit - there's always an investment. She used to do heavy PPC advertising (Google Adwords, etc), but she was still turning a great profit and a heckuva income from her home office. Not sure where you got the $200k figure.

There's no "slight of hand" in my opinion. That's what she earned.