Haha definitely not ready to get married just to make our rent collection and future taxes less of a hassle, but essentially we would like the rental income to be received "on the record" to both of us, if not instead something like an LLC.So you're ready to live together and run your real estate business together, but marriage...it's just too soon.You know those horror movies where Brad and his girlfriend hear the grunting noise in the barn and decide to go investigate together?

I'd suggest making it fun by watching a documentary or a movie showing the process and how investors prosper... and use that to push the conversation. 

There is a small town in southern ca is called Hinkley and it is the subject of the famed movie “Erin Brockovich”.

Christ Has RisenHave you read the books or watch the movies "The Big Short" or "Too Big to Fail"? 

This is similar to the recombinant DNA sequencing, they tried to do in the Blade Runner movie. 

They (whoever that is, it's always a "they" ha) are moving, FINALLY, on building out the commercial plaza / movie theater complex there, and getting it going.  

It used to have dive bars, music stores, 2nd hand shops, run down movie theater, craft stores, etc.  

Wasn't that a character in one of the Rush Hour movies?

Buying the remainderman position in a life estate is a more typical arrangement...there was even a movie about a guy who bought one for a Paris flat..

Lending standards were so absurd before 2008, watch the movie The big short.