most all nonprofits in this space are setup as state filed C Corporations that take the federal IRS Tax Exempt status later and make 1,000 copies of the determination letter to show to donors, states, cities, etc. to payNO property taxes, NO income taxes (IRS/states), NO sales taxes (states), etc. keeping costs downwhile providing deductions through donations that come from foundations, tax payers, corporations, etc. and there's a lot of collaboration with your tax payer dollars from govt.the biggest builder is probably Habitat for Humanity (Christian volunteer model), Proud Ground uses the Land Trust model and we like First Story's model based on working with for profit companies that donate materials and labor.The pieces of the affordable housing model that we DON'T WANT to use are "equity caps" and dependency on subsidies.Generally, the model has been to feed people fish.We want to teach them how to fish.So connecting renters to affordable home ownership opportunities/resources WITHOUT equity caps through small homes and free financial education can help some of the 100M Americans paying rent to many BiggerPockets millionairesso that renters can start their American Dream.We want our customers to be able to sell their small starter homes for a profit TAX-FREE under the primary home $250K/500K exclusion to be able to move up towards their American Dream.

I love collaborating with local investors and sharing resources, we will win!

Is anyone interested in doing a collaboration?

Can we collaborate together and help me find these deals? 

The program that I would look for in your area is a collaboration between a commercial bank and a conventional bank or find a bank that has both commercial and conventional in house.

Lots of great people to meet and lots of people to give plenty of pointers :)  link below  You will find endless ways to meet up with people in the cities (use meetup to search some more opportunities as well as bigger pockets meetups listed on the site) which is awesome for all of us to try and collaborate!

We do collaborative accounting with clients so they do the basic day to day and we come in a do a little cleanup either monthly or quarterly.

. - Running individual gas meters and providing per-unit forced air was our ideal option, but we went against it for the following reasons: 1) the logistics of running new gas lines to each unit would be difficult and expensive; 2) that coupled with the fact that it was only a partial renovation of the building (not all the units at once) added to the difficulty; 3)given the time frame we had to complete the units we were working on, it was too risky to bring in the logistics of city and utility collaboration and inspections, to stay on schedule. - Regarding baseboard heat: given the upgrades we were doing (not fully high end but still nice), baseboard didn't provide the "amenities" we wanted the tenants to have e.g. air conditioning, programable thermostat, etc. - What we ended up doing was an electric forced air system.  

You are only limited by the strength of your collaboration.

That's because some industries require different degrees of collaboration.