The second option would be that I flip a home.

My question is what are the types of homes that attract long term tenants in this market?

They sold their home and retired to a very walkable 2bed 1 bath apartment in a neighborhood they liked.

Another strategy I like is finding a home with plenty of extra parking and renting the space on neighbor for RV parking.

But if you do need to improve the property to increase the value, then we want that work to be completed so we get the full After Repair Value (ARV) on the home.  

Building a home for sale is the same as house flipping.

In a loose sense, I would call any lender a "partner" too, since they will require not only your monthly payments, and will require regular reporting as well on the operations of the property (but this is a more semantic and philosophical discussion).But, ways you can try to come up with that money: refi your home and/or investment properties.  

Hello, my real estate investment partner and I are in talks with a party about getting a $1-2M promissory note in place, which we would draw on to make acquisitions of 12-25 single family homes over the next year or so.

We are going to be buying property and building a spec home shortly and need to understand the pros and cons of doing this deal through an LLC vs. as individuals, from a tax perspective.

Is she gone for 3 months at a time and then home for 2 weeks, then gone 2 months?