College in my opinion is HEAVILY overrated UNLESS you know the field you are going into is high pay and high demand and that in the end you will come out ahead.Sadly many rack up student debt to be doing something ( not saying this is you ) and then switch to something else.

On the other hand, if the deal is just "good", your track record is thin, and the investors you are trying to court have never worked with you before, the structure is going to have to lean much more heavily in the investor's favor.

My strategy is heavily focused on cashflow, so if I can get $150/mo in profit per unit I am happy.

One thing big roofing companies do is advertise heavily and use several dba's.

In my mind we will be heavily involved in the renovation, then turned it over to a Property Manager before moving on to deal two.

Just wanted to give an update on where I've been and what I'm doing now.About 3 years ago I started doing acquisition heavily for a few medium size investors.

I know people heavily involved in REI that do everything on a handshake. 

Mike, I'm with @Jon Holdman on this, flips don't qualify for 1031 treatment, and get taxed pretty heavily as he stated above.  

One who leverage heavily before crash had a bitter experience.

Is there a way to transfer this property into my name without being taxed heavily?