Adding value to a partnership is key and the partnership can not be weighted to heavy on either side or it does not work.Another option to attract a solid and experienced partner could be to have your father incest in their project with the $100k with the terms that you get to follow along from start to finish on the project.

However, on that subject, again, the safer investments are those with experienced sponsors/operators and as such, these experienced folks (myself included) have resources and contacts to form JV partnerships giving equity shares and avoid the CF platform hassles, red tape, and the middle man, leaving more room for the sponsor, the money partners, or both.My final vote is not in yet on this product as not enough time has elapsed but these are my preliminary thoughts and experiences thus far.One other thing, to invest in CF sites, u must be an accredited investor and as such, I would think an investor of that stature would not typically be worried about or looking for $5k opportunities, it is a drop in a large bucket.

Many people will try and fail, but the ones that learn the correct ways to analyze properties, screen tenants, hire PM's and turn REI into a functioning business model will benefit from significant financial gains.When people says its bad to invest in rentals/flips and the like they are often regurgitating poor information they received from someone else.

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I doubt you'll get it, though.In the future, you MUST draw out your partnership agreement prior to getting into bed with someone.

I'm just hearing more and more about partnerships that are disasters.I'd go with laminate.

There isn't an LLC with an S Corp election, but you can elect to have an LLC taxed as a corporation instead of a partnership.

Here are my lessons learned:Most of the functions can be handled via a web interface: advertising, rent, tenant screening, maintenance requests, applications and forms, etc.

Countless friendships have been destroyed from business partnerships.

I had to remind him that I dont function that way and I may end up having to leave him in the dust because I believe that negativity breeds more negativity and as Prohabber said, the law of avereages favor you.