I've been given the impression by my reading of Julie Broad's website (www.revnyou.com) that JV's are unlimited if the partner does the financing. 

There is nothing less attractive than a solar array on a roof.

Your posting is so broad that it may not get a lot of response.If you're new to Bigger Pockets then Welcome!

So in a way they constitute collective knowledge and experience as well as best practice of a very broad audience including commercial users.

My bad, I wanted to be broad enough to generate responses from many facets. 

Thanks,Nate I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but there's a broad consensus that they aren't counting the number of total awake hours in the home, they are counting the number of nights your head is asleep on a pillow in that home, and >50% makes it a primary residence. 4 out of 7 nights a week would seem to tick that box.

Between purchases being made and credit being extended, it's much too early to call the death of real estate broadly throughout the country (with the possible exceptions of the major cities). 

More broadly, we have positive wage growth, strong consumer confidence, increasing same store sales for retailers.

I suspect the map/data is a bit too broad and unfocused for it to be very helpful in drawing any conclusions.

But, again, you should be careful with generalizations and broad strokes...