You can certainly hint to your customers that you're expecting a 1099 by proactively giving them a W-9 with your company's name, address and EIN on it.  

@Brian Burke  hunts for multi from the west coast if you could get him to give you some hints that would be helpful... and again those are just my very LIMITED experienced in the space.

Not to mention, if the opportunity is solid, you'll have a good deal of buyers around here :) hint, hint

(hints at a repair)did the contractor pour a new slab of cement?

@Benjamin Blackburn It may not be useful in this scenario, but also think about going the hard money route if you intend on doing rehabs like @George Despotopoulos was hinting towards.

Your platting thoughts, hints and tips are greatly appreciated.

After countless hours and nights studying and playing with figures, reading horror stories and success stories, watching Flip This House and reading individual stories and hints and tips on this web page I took it all in and I think I did okay for my first time.

The market here is extremely competitive, even though we're making cash offers.After making a cash offer on a short sale, the seller's agent hinted to our agent that our price was good, ours was the only cash offer to include a 10 day, post-third-party-approval inspection period.

The OP said "...if we all contributed equal capital..." and there is no hint of "promotion".

Hint: If the seller has already exaggerated the likely NOI - what ELSE aren't you being told?