I recommend joining a local Real Estate Investment Club and look to find someone that would be willing to teach you the ropes, do a joint venture etc. and read books that you can pick up at the local book store.

Pavers look a lot nicer than concrete but I worry about weeds popping out through the damaged joints down the road and are harder to clean and maintain. 

Finally, you can cut expansion joints into the entire patio in a pattern that makes sense - grid, quadrants, whatever - and bust out the section(s) that are damaged and just repour those sections. 

I did a joint venture project deal last year and the jv partner was playing hardball about percentages.

The paperwork and legal splitting on the joint one has raised some questions. 

Hi All,I'm looking for suggestions on how to structure a joint venture (JV) BRRRR deal with a contractor. 

However...If you are married filing jointly, perhaps your spouse could.

Married filing jointly, $250,000 for those tax bracket 32% high income passive investors?

Combining them will just cause a lot of head aches in the future. 

I would also talk to a 1031 profesional on transfering the asset becasue you currently have it as a "personal residence" the taxes may not be as bad as you think, and/or if you are a joint filier you have additional benefits to the profit of that saleAnyways, Im not sure this will help, but based on the information, these should be a few questions you may want to ask or look further into.