Next big problem is if you don’t use a trust company maintaining and safeguarding the trust documents becomes an issue.

By offering the cash partner a higher equity stake you demonstrate to them how seriously you take safeguarding their money (mitigating their risk) knowing you might make a few more mistakes than a seasoned investor.

hello, this is my first post on bp. after reading Brandons book on investing I decided to take his advice and get on here and interact. my first question is how to properly safe guard myself.

If you are going to resell or rent the home, it is a good safeguard to have a clean bill of health letter from a 3rd party for CYA.

It is the lender's job to safeguard all parties, including the lending institution, against overexposure in a property. 

The sewer line tends to be the most successful silent killer because it's not part of the standard inspection regiment.Whatever the locally similar version of that is for you . . . inspect against those and make sure you don't have an AVOIDABLE surprise.I stress AVOIDABLE because you will have surprises, you just want to make sure they are not things you should have safeguarded against.  

We have used Dickie Baldwin (Baldwin Advisory Group), Accurate Group, SGPNow.com (Safeguard), DataTree, Raven Spatial, and others to get some combination of BPO/property condition report, drone imagery, desktop appraisal, AVM, etc.

I'm wanting to safely grow my total investments while using fixed-rate debt to safeguard against inflation. 

In general 12% sounds right and maybe less for c grade or higher if its 8% mgmt 3-4% leasing and the rest in markups but there needs to be safeguards. 

I used Safeguard advisors as my consultant to help me with setting up the SDIRA and also as someone to help understand how to appropriately use the funds to invest.