Where if we use our own personal funds (not funds acquired from our spouses or from our marriages) our business would be strictly ours and our spouses have no claim to it should one of us ever divorce from our spouse. 2) Invest with my husband using the equity from our home but I want to have a business structure that is separate from the marriage where we are both partners and we are paid for our individual contributions to the business.What type of business partnership could I have with my husband that can be setup in that way?

Sell this one and keep the cash on hand (after taxes (Ouch!))

As a result, a mixture of high taxes and decreasing job prospects are making rental properties less profitable and more risky, never a great combination. 

Its entirely possible that if he sells the house , and keeps the proceeds , she could be hit with a 1099 and since her debt was forgiven , and be liable for income taxes on that amount   But you wrote "If the man wanted to he could sell the house and keep the profit", nothing about your advice is based on having reviewed the divorce. 

I find the individual accounts help keep income and expenses separated by property which is useful for tax time in my opinion.

They gave developers tax breaks and then the buyers of these new units got a 10 year tax abatement no prop taxs for 10 years.

You can outfit as a full unit and still have two separate tenants per say but a master lease would provide the most protection to you when fielding applicants use MA housing court data base to run applicants through to see if they have any prior housing court claims

Seeing properties on Zillow being offered as with questionable title or quit claim deed upon sale.

Are you investing strictly for tax purposes?

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