As real estate investors, we have a very unique set of needs and most companies and agents out there are limited in their ability to structure things properly and even offer the right coverage in many cases.One thing everyone needs to understand is that anything having to do with rental or any other form of passive/residual income, is considered a business exposure and absolutely needs to be separated from any of your "personal" activities.I've been in the insurance business for 11 years and as an independent agent prior to becoming a real estate investor, I made this mistake all the time because I simply did not know, and most don't. 

The OP wants a REIT and NYSE exposure.

I've never had this much exposure at the hands on level to developing a project of this scale and naming has never come into the picture. 

You tie up less, have less exposure.

The question on how much stake to give your cash partner depends on the exposure.

Those types of money raises are really really difficult, so for those folks to be able to leverage off of all the notoriety and exposure Crowd funding is getting in my mind is huge.To that end I have personal experience with RM and RS and they were very keen on making sure the deals coming out of the gate were well underwritten and vetted, they did not want to have a Milwaukee type incident. ..

For example, if you buy and hold, then you really do not need an S corp election since your tax exposure will be more with the passive loss rules.

Then the new one popped up, carcasherdotcom seocontest Thats my entry. it's kind of an ingenius idea for the company (carcasher.com) to build up exposure for themselves...

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This is determined by age of drywall or plaster, exposure to the sunlight, how expensive the home is, and the quality you are trying to achieve.