Structuring Real Estate Company

[Drew Oberholtzer]

I'm taking my real estate ventures to the next level and am trying to figure out how to structure it. I've done a lot of reading, but filtering the information and deciding what's best has proved difficult. The key players are my wife and I (partners). We would like you involve our GC as an equity partner (unless not advisable) and a lawyer. We have several private investors on board, but we're not sure how to structure their roles. That said they all want to be passive investors. One problem that we've run into is deciding how to use an LLC while still being able to take advantage of bank financing for individual houses to buy and hold since it seems that banks won't loan to an LLC unless they have established credit or they are investing in multi-family buildings. Our strategies are fix and flip and buy and hold, ultimately replacing fix and flip with new construction. (my wife is a licensed architect). Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.