With that being said and your post requesting a focus on partnerships, here are a few things to consider as you move forward.1) Do you need a partner - or are you simply looking for accessible forms of investment capital that will allow you to acquire properties with minimal hassles, given the underwriting requirements of most institutional/Fannie Mae lenders. 

To get a loan from a bank or other institution you have to think like the bank.

Private money loans usually have a lower usury rate than institutions have if there are any.

Hello fellow Indy investors,I was talking with another local Indy investor and heard that Indianapolis is instituting a receivership program in 2016.  

The devil is always in the details....In short, Portfolio Lenders can be a useful tool for long term investors where the Community Banks/Institutional banks are not the best "fit" for your long term Portfolio.  

We shouldn't focus too much on the performance of individual units so long as we have enough dials to turn at a high level to meet our return requirements during this (hypothetical) period of transition.  4) Accessibility of financing and the movement of institutional funds to other markets. 

I earned my BA an AA and AS is three years from accredited institutions.

I am currently a commercial banker and vice president of one of the largest publicly traded financial institutions in the world.

I work for a fee-based management company overseeing institutional investor assets, this one in particular is 650+ individually leased bedrooms with all the trimmings.

That created a lot of issues for fund managers, I was one of them, as much of that private equity was leveraged with institutional debt.