Our plan was to pay off our loans as fast as we can, start a corporation to mitigate risk and start a joint savings account where we do 50/50 contributions to build up cash to invest. 

Our activities for 2016 consisted of two joint ventures.  

I would recommend reaching out to them to see about doing some kind of joint venture.

Here's a little backstory 1 yr and some couple of months ago, I was at the Joint Base Lewis–McChord library in Washington State.

You put them all on one lease and make sure it holds them jointly and severably liable.

If you owned the house for 2 out of the last 5 years and lived in it in 2 of the last 5 years, and your profit did not exceed 250K (if single) or 500K (if married filing jointly), you will not pay capital gain tax.  

Our offer is either as a consultant, or we can look at a joint venture.

After closing, myself and brother (his children) are quitclaimed and added as joint tenants (lender is fine with this).

Also, each joint venture will be different.

In one breathe you do not want to be a sponsor or managing member but in another you are not wanting to be a passive investor in a larger syndicate.It sounds like you do not want to to work for the yield a sponsor gets but want more return than a passive investor gets as standard investing in a syndicate.Sounds like you are looking more for a joint venture arrangement.Brian Burke is out that way and a member on here and he does large multifamily syndicates.