Quote from @Ruben Diaz: Good evening team!

We have 8 business entities availing of their services, and as "advisors", they should make business life easier -- not add more work on your plate --- but instead, my team and I have been checking for mistakes, or following up on action items, missed deadlines, and paying penalties to the IRS and Secretaries of State due to their negligence.

My team was on Zillow Flex.

Write it up to an education, spend some time sharpening your support team (particularly in the trades) and start thinking about how you can do it again!

I have been on board with an all military affiliated team with Coldwell Banker Vanguard;The Military Group for about a year.

Your team is key to your flipping success. 

They seem to have a good team but this is something not thought out it seems , in their support I do have DSTs which have had the same issue and have not been making payments. 

Quote from @Sri Reddy: I am a newbie to real estate investing and looking for guidance from the teams here to understand the sources from where we can find any small retail spaces to buy.

Insurance right now is wild, so I'd get a solid broker on your team - I'd be happy to share my contact if that would help.Also, aren't most of the existing insurances shared on the OMs for the properties? 

Simply gifting him half the property now wouldn’t immediately allow him to claim the exclusion without fulfilling this residency requirement, I don't believe.One thought would be to use a HELOC to pull just enough equity out of the current home and use it to buy a smaller home, or at least the down payment.