We have 8% pref and plan to refinance into GSE on year 3. We return 50% of the capital to investors. Do we split this payout like any other cashflow? Let's say we have a cumulative 70/30 split. Let's say year 3 brings...

I was planning on incorporating my future real estate company to protect myself and have the tax benefits.

There is no point, in their eyes, in directing you to products they can't make money on.

I'm a bit confused, because we can't benefit from inflation in usual life but it seems like here we get a lot of reward from buildings' prices go up because of rent growth.

The local economies are growing much stronger there in the right places and you can get large capital gains by benefitting from the path of progress.

The legal limit for interest on a mortgage is 20%; therefore hard money lenders are well within their right to charge 10-15% in exchange for the risk they take and the benefits they provide.

I think you would benefit from reading Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss.  

The added benefit of this process is that you can also have your attorney sign the public records as "Nominee Trustee" before assigning yourself as the "Trustee" once the Trust has been established.

If you sell you will loose quite a bit in agent fees and you might never buy again in a prime location like Mountain View, You seem fairly young and have long investment horizon, if you are able to hold on to this long term you will most likely reap the benefits like its doing for @Maria D.   

Just curious if the primary is more important as i move forward trying to use leverage in my benefit.