When you find that person, I would offer to work for them for free doing their grunt work and being their assistant in exchange for some of their knowledge.

From that post the law was quoted as: "Anyone who, for compensation, sells, offers to sell, buys or offer to buy, or negotiates the purchase or sale or exchange of real estate...leases or offers to lease or rents or offers to rent any real estate or improvements thereon is required to hold a real estate license."3.

I am puzzled as to what my options are or on how my exchange would work?

I don't want to do a 1031 exchange, I don't want to a seller finance...what other creative financing options are there that will allow me to save on taxes.    

3 in exchange for no more split payments.

If you want a partner, I think the partner would need to get the financing in exchange for you doing all the legwork with the flip.

I would be very much willing to learn, maybe exchange of knowledge?

The investor gets 100% of cash flow from the rented side and pays 50% of expenses.Essentially this is double leverage and in-house management for the investor in exchange for credit approval and equity share for my friends.Does this seem unreasonable?

I think a point that drives home your post is the fact that you don't have to pay taxes on that appreciation either if it's your primary - not the case in rental properties (even though you can do 1031 exchanges). 

What does a 1031 exchange do to the delay of the tax benefits and the depreciation?