Building strong, respectful relationships with your contractors is key.

If Michael wants to keep the house, he buys out Jacob based on Jacob's cash contribution to the purchase plus/minus some percentage of the appreciation/depreciation since purchase (% could be based on their respective cash contributions to the purchase).

I'm not an Attorney but you could set up an LLC (Parent Company) that is owned 50/50 by each of your own respective LLCs (You own 100%).

I HOPE you understand what I am saying :) Thanks for your directness—I definitely respect your viewpointI’m fully committed to advancing in real estate, and I understand that meaningful networking is about mutual value.

So in that respect it is a good option, and location is also very good.These are all studio apartments with a living area of 392 SF (not too bad from Waikiki standard), however the price in this building has already gone much higher over the past few year.

I suggest next time approaching it in a inquisitive respectful manner vs how it sounds you did.

@Mariah Monson we respectfully advise the opposite approach of @Kevin Sobilo. 

With due respect, I don’t think you understand the difference between a consumer-purpose loan and a business-purpose loan.

With all due respect, you can't ignore politics in real estate when politics injects itself into real estate.

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