A partnership generally requires the parties (at east two) to carryon a trade or business and implicates the sharing of bottom line profits and losses.Based solely on the above it sounds a little more like you are being compensated on a one time basis for services rendered rather than as a partner sharing in the profits and losses of a partnership. 

There was a deed from the early 80s that was never recorded rendering the property nearly unsalable.

I am not an attorney nor will I render legal advise.

If I did this I would include an amenities and structure addendum stating that amenities, e.g. the pond, could be rendered unusable at any time, so I could fill it if it became a hassle down the road.

After talking to different people I found that I cannot insure or get a loan on the property, basically rendering it useless to me unless the quit claim deed is gone.

I am looking for information and recommendations for using a professional to do staged photos and virtual tours. i am currently rehabbing a 3-flat and its not finished. i would like someone to come in, take measurements, and do renderings or staged/computerized photos for marketing my units.I am not sure what type of individual i am looking for! 

There is a drain, though the pan has an extra hole, which renders it generally useless.

Due to the Covid pandemic most trailing vacancy rates are now being render useless. 3.

Co. of Am. 2014 WL 6675934 (D.N.J. 2014) (holding ammonia discharge at packaging facility constituted physical damage triggering business interruption coverage even absent structural damage because it “physically transformed the air…so that it contained an unsafe amount of ammonia…[and] rendered the facility unfit for occupancy”).See also:https://www.law360.com/article...

For example you have renderings, feasibility studies and presentation.