I used base rock (4-6 inches of class 2 base rock compacted at 2-inch lifts), an inch or so of sand, pavers, and a polymer modified sand (which has a little bit of bonding strength) to fill the joints between pavers and prevent weed growth.

IF you can not do the hands on work of renovating full time you may not have anything to offer initially.You can throw all your cash into the partnership and possibly take a proportionally smaller percentage at the end.

So what your saying is  everythin gis pretty relative, with rates going up the prices of homes only drop proportionally to said rates. 

If it is not flow from the house, it would likely be the soils unless the leachfield was improperly constructed (such as trench sealing or excess compaction.

David,At this point in your life, money begets money at around the same return rate proportional to the amount of risk you're willing to take.  

For a debt and SDIRA financed property a proportional amount of the rental income is subject to UBIT.

I ran a credit report on a applicant, and it flagged the applicant for having too many recently opened accounts in proportion to total number of accounts.

(not a tax expert; I may be mistaken)From your advice and the above article, I gather it's possible to find syndication deals structured to share tax deductions proportionally with investors.

I'm personally more interested in the number of accounts outstanding, proportion of balance to limit, how often any have been late, and the nature of the accounts than anything else, because the first month the tenant has to choose between car payments for husband, wife, daughter, and mom, and paying the rent, they're going to choose the car payments. 

Allocate the HELOC interest in proportion to the amount of the total loan proceeds used to acquire each property.