Residential properties, inventory, securities, trust certificates, corporate stock, or partnership interests cannot be exchanged under Section 1031.

so they can improve their DTI.Maybe a partnership with a waterfall allocation makes sense, but there must be 'substantial economic effect' for such an allocation to be respected.Why not just do a cash out refi and use the proceeds to buy 2-5 more properties?

My idea would be that every project would technically be a limited partnership, where cash investors/funders would supply the entire cash required for construction, and developers would be under contract to finish within a certain time frame.

@Pauline ZhaoA partnership that has neither income, deduction, nor item of credit does not need to file a federal income tax return for the applicable year.

Limited Partnership Units value at $105,000 for $5,000.......Received over $75,000 in payouts so far.I’m working on one right now where a huge discount is involved IF we close this week, I’ll report back

When you go into deals and/or partnerships how do you determine your value and what your time and efforts are worth?

My partner and I would like to know which Corp. is best as new investors. Were buying in Baltimore MD. and before we really start getting into acquiring the homes we wanted to do our do diligence to make sure the comp...

Your lender will require the three of you (if you are all putting equity in and want to be on the deed) to be personally on the loan.Rather than an LLC, you can put together a partnership agreement or other operating agreement outlining how the three of you will work together, the financial and other expectations and a hopefully never needed plan for dissolution (breaking up) of the group. 

I am an out of state investor and I can't emphasize enough how major a good partnership can be for you.

Check out this threadhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/799535-rental-partnership-structure-questions?