Always pay them back and eat the loss yourself.

The contract healthcare providers are always looking for some great MTR options close to work but also close enough to good eats, MARTA etc.  

Just like you, she can do RE as a side gig and learn a lot more while she keeps her own nest egg going and her lendability strong with a regular job.You should loop her into a major document with all of the properties and all of the profit and loss and go through them one by one and talk about whether to sell or keep, and also base it on geography for her and your collective choice of management.

They bring more stability and less turnover than STRs, but the discounted rates and occasional deep clean can eat into profits.

NYC and the Bronx and Queens and Brooklyn are generally impossible wholesale areas anyway, but if you add in that you are an out-of-town student alleging to buy people's houses, NYers will eat you alive.

To top it off people like this, that are so normalized to their filth don't understand why deep cleaning eats their entire deposit.

By making sure that (1) the investors are aware of this before investing (and not just by putting this on page 32 of the PPM, but by conversation and email trail), (2) that the investors have a certain minimum net worth and or income (and not just by SELF certification), and (3) that the investors don’t put all their eggs (investment $) in one basket(loan participation) we avoid all the drama when the inevitable one out of ten or twenty investmemt doesn’t work out as planned.  

I just know the 500k sitting there needs to work harder that what it isYeah, I feel like 1031’s can be like a chicken or egg problem.

Set up some bunks and a coffee maker, stock the fridge with some muffins and eggs and offer up as a fishing camp? 

This often only works with large properties where you are raising north of $1mm in equity, otherwise the legal fees eat up too much of the overall deal to make it worthwhile for anyone.