Also, it can be helpful to get credit cards only in one persons name in the marriage or partnership.  

From a legal standpoint, a partnership joins your finances in the same way that a marriage joins two people's finances.

A good friend of mine is in a failed marriage situation in California.

However, we found out that we probably can't be qualified for 1031 Exchange because of our marriage.  

I live in NYC and I am in the exact same boat, except it's a pair of grifters engaged in marriage fraud who are close friends with neighbors next door, who are also giving me trouble.

Like a marriage, pick your partner carefully.

My wife was renting it for about a year & half prior to marriage, and once I I moved in, started talking to owners to see if they would sell to us as our first family home purchase.

My wife was renting it for about a year & half prior to marriage, and once I I moved in, started talking to owners to see if they would sell to us as our first family home purchase.

There will always be real estate out there...a good marriage is hard to find.

Who pays what, who can live there, what happens in a fire death divorce disaster, marriage, when can you sell, who decides on tenant or the contractor to replace the roof, how long will you be partners, what is the exit plan?