Structuring a commercial deal partnership: Trading my time

[Rimes Dinkins]

Hey guys, I am currently a real estate agent and looking to invest in commercial properties. As many of you know commercial deals can require a lot more capital and certain deals have limits on wealth and income (accredited investors).  As an agent, I have experience in transactions, market analysis, project management, and property management, but can't act on buying a commercial property alone at this point in time.

Have any of you structured a deal by putting low to no money down in a commercial deal and used your expertise, experience, and time to get in a deal?  If so, how did you structure it? Or if you are the investor with the capital, what are your thoughts on this? What's reasonable? I would act as the General Partner doing property management (trading my time for money).