I was told by a lender that if I wanted to put 10 under my name and 10 under my wife's name, we would have to sign a Free Trader Agreement - in basic terms, a document prepared for the purposes of waiving each party’s rights as to real estate and creating a right to obtain real estate independent of the other.

Everyone got greedy back then as stock brokers.

Not all painters and carpet installers are stoners--just an observation that over my 12 year career of doing this, I have found these 2 traders to rank 1 and 2 though. 

OR do I just say I am being too greedy and work on my current deals and pass this one up and forget about structuring $5k worth of private money or the hefty price tag of a HML?

Currently around here in Seattle/Bellevue, I feel like Buffett’s saying goes: “when everyone is greedy, you should be afraid, and when everyone is afraid, you should be greedy” or something like that.

Good private investors wanted, not so greedy ones too! 

While tax savings is absolutely the main reason to do a 1031, it would obviously be nice to be greedy and have a cash flowing property with the potential to appreciate.

I want to be fair - are the percentages inline or too greedy (or to low)?

With the consolidation in the winter sport industry central management has gotten very greedy indeed. 

One of them is a good friend of mine and the other one is a young lady who works at the hospital and says “I’m just looking for a bed”, and honestly imaging she's going to be super quite and practically not even there... but I am curious as to how to determine who would be the better tenant, while also not being a greedy piece of 💩...I want to help them both, but also trying to be a savvy businessman, I don't know what the right answer is?