. - But I have a family member (Brother or Parent etc...) who is interested in putting some money into it.- Total start up costs (Down payment + closing costs, furnishing, getting started on Airbnb etc...) = 200k USD- Family member wants to put in 50k USD of the start up costs, but doesn't want to be on the hook for the mortgage. 

We are actually having one our premier events in October called Junkers to Jewels, a 3 day in person classrom and bus tour to learn about flipping, rehabbing, estimating etc on actual deals with local investors. 

For instance, should I base it on a dollar amount per hour I work on the project, either as a PM or as a guy who actually puts on the tool belt?  

Thoughts on pulling money out of my primary residence to cover the down payment or are there better ways?

Look, it's actually very simple. 

So I switched to Progressive and actually saved some money. 

It's actually very feasible to manage your own MTRs if you're inclined to do so and, thankfully, there are now loads of resources to help you do just that from PMS software to leasing, background check and payment integrations.

I think it's smart to put money into the stock market.

If you have a massive infusion of money that you are going to put into the business and run it like that, then get the GC.

Instead of average monthly job gains of 242K, it was actually 174K — a downward revision of 28%.Fed minutes let the cut out of the bag.