Do NOT wait to do this, or your license will initially be inactive, and you'll have to transfer sponsorship manually.  

She also paid significantly higher state and federal taxes due to her hard work.And now the state is telling Jill that she must sponsor John, despite all the taxes she’s paid.It seems like a pretty strange and unfair system to me; involuntary sponsorship.

@Scott Trench Do you have any info about pricing for sponsorships? 

The Taliban was eliminated from state sponsorship in Afghanistan in less time than that.

Local sponsorships may make sense.

Just looking for basic sponsorship, no office space or anything like that or extra bells and whistles.

But, again, that has nothing to do with the sponsorship team or the deal itself.

After that some people say that I have to get be affiliate with a managing broker so I can get sponsored.Here's what I don't understand: nobody can tell me how much this sponsorship would cost me.

We will be funded some money through the university and I have obtained outside sponsorship and funding already for our club.

DST's are not optimal for a syndicator to do versus a straight sponsorship where investors are putting non-1031 cash in.For 1031 clients on the commercial end I help them buy directly and make a commission on the sale.