I generally advise my clients to skip properties that are near main street traffic or commercial buildings/stores.

May be board up the windows but put screen doors on the main doors as a hybrid solution would work. 

@Sarah Roberts @Travis Main @Clay Lehman

We have a pre-built Salesforce app for Real Estate called Left Main REI.

1 - yes2 - I don't think that the drain from your house to the main sewer falls under the "Municipal Sewer" category that @Joshua Thompson mentioned, but I would have to check before giving a verdict.

The main hurdle that many of our borrowers face are the income aspect of it, especially expensive markets like the West coast.

There is one set of legal documents that you signed into the main offering, you funded the main bank account, you get a K-1 from the same entity as every other investor.  

I personally don't want to use them again mainly because of the lack of communication 

In what ways can JVs be structured to finance a RE investment, and what are the main legal and financial considerations for parties entering into such agreements?

My main goals are to diversify from my current business and to invest in assets that can help lower my yearly taxes.What would you suggest?