Brennan, I'm a structural engineer in california.

In Oakland, dilapidated structures can get by with a bare minimum of state required maintenance for decades.The very policies that are intended to protect tenant rights, over and over and over again, seem to backfire, helping only tenants who stay put for decades, and in some cases who maintain a residence at thousands of dollars below market in the rent controlled city while also living in another location.

I looked at hempcrete which is insulative, shear strength, but is not structural.

Looking to figure out the financing and legal structure.

Syndications are simply a business structure where a group of people combine to carry out a business or project.

Price materials and labor cost will depend on how large of scope of work but a good company is going to be around 3500 a week plus cost of over head we also pay 30% tax on our income also like you guys but if you anticipate 4 week rehab well be ready for minimum of 14k in labor +14knis low end in my opinion... now I'm currently eating my lunch on a rehab from hell but it's gonna be a work of art from where it came from... this was the worst of the worst in my career water damage to all structural raised the roof on a horrible addition and did it correctly. 

The way you would need to structure this is two ways:1.

However, if they are truly passive investors, are you structuring and documenting this as a syndication?

There are a few that are either "really close" of simply don't fit other criteria that we want (one example, a group looked quite promising, however when digging into the PPM / OM's we found that the whole thing was based in the Caymans... that's a great place to vacation, and I really liked the Caymans... however I don't want to have to figure out the legal structure of something that's not US based should I ever need to.... so, that's not one were invested in).Feel free to reach out privately - always willing to chat.

So, a syndication investment is not always an investment in the equity of the property.It all depends on the offering structure, like @Evan Polaski said.