Welcome @DJ Cespedes What is it that each of you are bringing to the enterprise?

Pick an automation solution that is federated (meaning not an all in one solution yet integrated across resources that you will need), scalable to grow as your enterprise needs grows, simple enough to use as a startup yet teachable to your team members as they onboard and assist your growth and most important minus the fluff which can be confusing and expensive from the beginning as most of the features you won’t even use in your day to day operations.

This is often just another way of stating that a product is more focusing more on enterprise-level custom integrations with significant upfront integration costs.

Gene Trowbridge put out an article a while back saying that advertising for private loans is an area where one of the elements of the Howey Test would fail:It is an investment of moneyThere is an expectation of profits from the investmentThe investment of money is in a common enterprise (emphasis mine)Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third partySee what a securities attorney says in your area. 

The test consists of 4 elements:It is an investment of moneyThere is an expectation of profits from the investmentThe investment of money is in a common enterpriseAny profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third partyIf you are borrowing money from someone it generally fails the third element above because there is no common enterprise for those contributing the labor and the capital. 

for his job and fell in love with the area.In the next 90 days, we want to purchase a SFH with a mother-in-law suite/basement or a B-class townhome in order to stop putting money toward rent and start building our Buy and Hold investment portfolio.Long-term we want to partner with other investors interested in Buy and Hold and BRRRR investing to build a portfolio of multifamily properties.We are currently passive, partial owners of a 25 unit property in Dayton, Ohio, which definitely kick-started the investing bug :)I work full-time in digital marketing, focused on SEO and content marketing, for the eCommerce division of an enterprise tech company.

May want to try Jeffrey Slaughter - Wallaton Enterprises Inc. 

I am hoping that I can cross paths with anyone here to share their experiences and enlighten me on this new enterprise that I am venturing into.

@Will Barnard of Barnard Enterprises Inc. ...I know for a fact you are legit because just this morning I was reading "The Book on Investing in Real Estate with NO (and low) Money Down" by Brandon Turner and noticed your Picture while scrowling down this thread. 

It sounds like you are creating a business partnership with your long term partner, whereby the two of you will share in the profits of the enterprise.