The investment is on track to significantly increase in value and contribute to the long-term success of the portfolio.

She is very old school, she mentioned that the seller would only contribute to the “traditional” closing costs, around 2k 

This comes with some other ramifications around legal liability and the ability to get a mortgage on the property.The other way to fix this is to create an LLC now, and both you and your MIL contribute the current properties into the LLC, then the LLC 1031 exchanges the old properties into the new property.

No UBIT on leveraged real estate.  10x higher annual contribution limits. 

*Remember taking a loan and misrepresenting the loan as your down payment contribution is not raising LP equity and seems to be how many are trying to get around the down payment requirements.

Syndications you lose full control and are significantly more risky by that notion.

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?

Dual City Investments has done multiple Section 721 exchanges and accepts 721 properties as capital contributions into their fund (Dual City Advantage Fund).

This property is already contributing to my portfolio’s performance and has strong potential for even greater returns after the planned upgrades are completed.

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