Your thoughts on unmarried middle-aged couple joint investing?

[Joe Rodriguez]

My fiance and I are discussing marriage within the next year or so. We're also discussing beginning investing in real estate with a focus on single family flips, or multi-family buy and holds for the first few purchases. In essence we're planning on establishing retirement via real estate. 

My spider senses tell me that the majority of your opinions would reject any premarital joint venture. However, I believe, as with virtually any subject matter, some of you may have valid reasons to disagree. With so many investors articulating their partnership terms of agreements to suit their unique goals and needs, is it unreasonable to think that we may be able to structure our agreement so that it would address many of the inherent concerns our unmarried status brings to the table? Please comment. Thanks.