Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Banning.

Purchase price: $575,000

Cash invested: $218,750

Sale price: $775,000

This was a tough one. Im sure there are...

Would a DST work to defer taxes on ordinary income from say flipping properties and using the trust to invest in more properties?

Is the goal to flip?

Look at purchase HUDS, statement of work if it was a renovation and the sale HUD to make sure they made money on the deal.An organized and easy to navigate borrower's package.Security documents to collateralize the loan against real, tangible property.I loaned $60K to some “friends from church” for a flip they were doing about 8 years ago.

Doing these two things alone should allow you to go from one or two flips per year to easily doing 5-10. 

Buy something that can be a live-in flip and you're on your way.Option 2 - Does it make sense to buy with your brother and spouse? 

It was essentially a half-done, bad flip that didn't sell as expected.

So I started with cooperative assignments, which enabled me to raise much needed cash and then branch into other strategies, buy and hold, fix and flip. 

Aha yeah I dont really trust flippers to do the repairs correctly - Even with my own flip I was tempted to cheap out on it but you always pay for it in the end!

I have burned up texts and calls from the other side of the world because of the crises du jour in my rental and flipping businesses.