Perhaps It would be good to summarize all the responses into an updated post with full financials.Thanks a lot for sharing!

But I can save you hours and hours of listening by just summarizing here.I started flipping houses, at first using seller financing, credit cards, credit lines, you name it. 

I'm gonna summarize all of them in my blog post once I'm home!

If someone is active in RE they will not be paying NIIT in the first place...So to summarize, a low income taxpayer may be able to hit the 0% cap gains rate and a high income person who isn't active in RE may avoid 3.8% tax. 

I'll summarize my extensive research on Tiny Houses and San Diego for you here: You can't have an RV within City Limits (checkout the City Limits, they are large) and nearby Cities have similar rules about RVs.

@Mike Dymski summarized it better than I could.You are looking at this from the point of view of 'how do I get money to do what I want'.

Exceptions for the rare off-market deal)To summarize: If you've got time, experience, want returns in excess of 20%, and have control of the deal, syndication isn't a good fit. 

I use Excel with SumIf statements to summarize data by keyword from other pagesApartments.com for a free rent payment portal that go directly into my bank account so I don't have to hassle depositing paper checks. 

Account Closed, great job summarizing the market. 

Pretty much summarized the best two options, but since the investors are older, there is a third option.