Also, kudos for thinking to split the house off from the rest of the land!

I'm speaking for myself, not any sort of official company opinion.

Especially since you can take some tax free and defer indefinitely the tax on the rest. 

You could both have an "official" contribution of 40K on your books and Partner B would have an additional loan to the company of 10K (with interest if you choose).

If you are working a w-2 job, then you are working for someone else for the rest of your life. 

You don't need to know everything to get started; you just need a foundation to build on and the rest will come through experience and then refining your education.You can build a basic understanding of investing in 3-6 months.

Was a great base to build the rest of my education on.  

For the rest of your investing career...

They shut down not because they lost money; they also made a bunch of $ in the first half of this year, but because the wide swings in earnings put the rest of their lines of business at risk.

The plan we set was to start with the broker to find the rest of the team thru referrals.