Newer firms that don't have a loyal following might be more likely to employ 506(c) to recruit investors because they need to advertise in order to find enough investors. 

Instead, he's recruited me to find good short term deals (value adds that take less than 6 months) as opposed to his current longer speculative deals (condo developments that take 18+months).

Are you SSG Ward and were a recruiter from 2018 to perhaps today in the army?

I used to work as a recruiter in my first post college job and would hire 100 to 200 people for these large government contract jobs around the states ( think working on airplanes ).

No, I recruited near there, but didn't know anything about real estate investing at that time.

If I were to recruit partners is the following scenario possible.We both put 50% of the down payment in, but only my partner uses his income to qualify for the mortgage.

What do you charge for recruiting new tenants?

I have owned 4 brokerages over the decades.. mostly to support my own activities.. thats the only way I would personally do it.. its constant recruiting.. and with the margins these days your not making much on the brokerage its a free place to work.. now in some markets were they have a strangle hold on agents and take a crazy cut like 50% I guess i can see that working.. but in competitive markets for agents you have 100% shops that just charge a flat fee per year.Like my wife pays 10k a year.. and gets 100%... the landscape is changing.for beginning in the business though I like the Keller team approach will will learn while you earn.. then figure out what you want to do.

I'd like to know if they are incentivized to recruit me and tell me how amazing their brokerage is.

What do you charge for recruiting new tenants?