One way would be for your friend to join your current LLC, but that could get messy if you or your friend decide to stop working together, especially if you guys bail mid project due to a disagreement.Best way to protect yourselves is to keep it separate with individual LLCs that invest into a JV LLC that can be dissolved if needed.

In scenarios where the seller keeps the deed, you run the risk of them changing their mind down the road and it gets messy.

It two tenants live in a duplex property , and the one upstairs leaves piles of trash in the yard for cats to tear up leaves a big mess . Is

Staging: The home is currently empty so it's not the issue of it being 'messy'.  

What a mess!  I

Banks want to know who actually owns the home and that can get pretty messy if they're super old and no one knows where the title actually is.It's been my experience that finding banks to finance this is a lot harder than I originally thought.

My advice....talk to a lawyer and don't rely on some people on the internet to offer you solid and reliable advice on a situation like this...This is gonna get messy......your uncle obviously resents you being involved and has probably been stealing your legal cut of this property.Talk to a lawyer ASAP...

What is the most you've ever seen to clean up a messy title in Georgia?

I am still trying to find out the story - the hosue itself has been let go as far as maintenance, the front yard is pretty messy, and the house could use a paint job.

I am writing up an offer right now and will re-write my agent's offer and avoid the fax-of-a-fax messiness.