Two questions: 1) can I borrow money from him, like an unofficial hard money lender, without us being in an LLC together?

What are some of your thoughts on ways to structure the deal (we hopefully make one day) that is mutually beneficial for us.  Being

We're planning on selling our CA triplex in the not too distant future, so I was pondering doing a reverse 1031 on this as I don't see us being able to sell our triplex before buying the 12 unit.Current triplex info: worth around $725,000 or so, mortgage principal is about $340,000. 

I feel that the competitors are really starting to offer more features that I would need like a USB ports and better pens to write on screens.  

For us being military has allowed us to achieve this by age 27 and 29 with unique opportunities of buying personals wherever we are stationed. 

We got in at a really good time and now we're seeing places all around us, being sold for 100K-200K more than what we paid, which is probably why it feels pretty painful to buy locally.

The plan is to form a multi-member LLC as a vehicle to own the property, with all 3 of us being members. 

I have a studio mic Audio Technica AT4053B and equipment.

We all know BRRR is the ultimate goal, however, with us being so far away, it's just too many things to juggle without having a tried, tested and trustworthy team on the ground.

For us, being smart on how we buy and looking at ARVs of around 400k or less so we won't be on the market too long.