Either make sure your partner gets 100 hours and you do 101, that way you get the benefit ;) alternatively you both can do 500 hours and both get the benefit. 

There are better alternatives.

Sellers will still want to offer incentive to a buyer's professional (although the quantity/percentage is likely to be reduced) as alternative compensation structures become available.

The guys we hire don't have fancy websites (or at all) or drive new trucks with giant logos on it. 

Exploring creative financing options like portfolio loans leveraging combined property income, hard money loans based on property equity, private money lending from investors, or negotiating seller financing for new property acquisitions could offer viable alternatives to support your investment goals.

Just one alternative way to look at it.

Alternatively, 250k would get you the down payment on up to a $1.25m property.

Are there suitable alternatives?

In a pinch offer to Pay for a Moving Truck and come over to load the Deadbeats out as soon as possible to get on with your Business. 

Does anyone run into the challenge of Alternative Minimum Tax?