There were also 2 big industries in the town, a refinery and an Amazon.com distribution center. 

From the ad you create for your deal flow to the cash flow distribution after you exit the project. - Make sure you are surrounded with pros who's taking care of your financial compliance, SEC compliance, IRS compliance, legal compliance, etc. - Understand syndication structure that you want to offer.

Please take time to read the Syndications thread here with the never-ending horror stories of paused distributions, capital calls, loss of principal, inability to redeem and so on. 

This includes the distributions and the sale of the property. 

You'll have some street cred that way and also get familiar with the numbers, reporting, distributions, pro forma vs actual results, capital stacks and communication....what you like and what you don't like.   

I also feel like there are potential tax benefits to a loan instead of contribution/distribution.

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Directly to your distribution question: you can have one or more per LLC, and that depends on multiple factors:- property class - you might not want to mix A class property with a D class property in the same LLC, due to different tenant level- cash flow - you might want to keep your cash flow cow separate from the ones that barely produce- equity - you might want to keep the one with large equity in its own LLC while you can group the ones with little equity in another LLC (let's say you have one with 50K equity in its own LLC and 3 other each with only 10K in another LLC, till their equity grows to your risk threshold when you move them out in their own LLC).- number of units (in the case of MF)- location of real estateThe investor has to decide what mix is optimal for their situation.4.

You can always go to a banker and ask them what would derive the most valueGino

Based on Noi/Piti derived from the 30 year amortization?