If setting up his family member for success is not his intention, why pay all of his money into one or two places to only leave it the family to sell and have all the cash to play with?

Ideally, you would have already been an ED (executive director) at an agency before you try to create one of your own.

An investor’s ideal seller is one that “Needs” to sell, not “Wants” to sell.

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Yea it makes me think your playing with loaded dice ;-)

This will cause long-term interest rates to rise taking mortgage rates with it.The Fed has to play a very dangerous game with interest rates.

What about role playing, between a seller and a wholesaler do any of the "gurus" cover that?

To answer the question from phcapital, yes, you do get tax benefits of depreciation with a TIC as well as regular income distributions from rents.As stated earlier, they are ideal for someone who wants to have ownership of larger scale retail centers or office buildings they otherwise would not have access to with the amount of capital you have to invest.The only tricky part about them is the exit, which was also stated earlier.

Lazy people sitting around middle of the day playing WII or XBOX on their HI-Def Plasma, but they can't afford their mortgage?

So for your own sanity and protection, stay out of the drama and fight those urges to play white knight.