To avoid reducing your lifetime exemption, you could gift equity incrementally, but this requires proper legal structuring (e.g., fractional ownership transfers).

Any legal issues I should be aware of in this situation? 

What happens during periods when the demand for legal work is lower?

Hey @Vanessa Lozano get out to some meetings and meet some people.

I've always been able to find my STR clients investments that are legal and whose numbers works. 

Meets at the Dave and Busters in Euless.

Lending capacity should only matter to those with large borrowing needs and require large legal lending limits but that wouldn't apply to hard money lenders anyway.

As a business, a judge will expect YOU to know all the laws and legal procedures.Make a minor mistake and the judge is unlikely to give you a break and may rule in the tenant's favor.The judge will see the tenant as a consumer and may give them a lot of leeway in court, even give them borderline legal advice.You are in over your head, not having the knowledge to properly handle this.

Thankfully I have no property in NY.I loved this quote which shows just how clueless people are about housing issues:“Housing instability is at the root of so many problems facing our city, such as exacerbating homelessness and hunger, failing to meet our children’s educational needs, and undermining public safety,” said the CWTU in a statement.

@Zach HowardThere is no legal requirement for landlords to actually witness lease violations firsthand.