For #5, note that there are nowadays "tech startup" solutions to financing one's primary residence (see Unison and Point.com), but the money comes from private institutions or private sources--the money is not "crowdfunded" for many reasons--in part, because there are a lot of strange privacy issues (imagine if your home was partially owned by 50 other people.

We should focus on better solutions for providing rent relief to Californians than this initiative, including increasing tax credits for renters, passing new bonds to provide public funding for affordable housing construction, and requiring developers and cities to build more affordable housing across the state.Proposition 10 is the wrong solution for a state that desperately needs to create more affordable housing for middle class families.

@Robert E Bogino you have 1 solution for sure here and one "maybe". 

The best you can do with your friend is tag him along for 4-5 deals from start / after acquisition until sold, to mitigate the pre-acquisition phase, he can bring you the deals, you vet it, then you take a cut for being a backup solution provider, say 25% of net profit, the role might involve time to vet and visit projects until sold.

Hey Adam-  I started managing properties on my own, once I got large enough, I first used CPM, then moved to Seldin, and have finally found a pretty good solution with DVG Realty.  

Looking for context to the entire situation to find the best solution. 

To all the Canadian investors out there, has anyone come up with a creative and LEGAL solution to claim back the HST ITC's on expenses for residential real estate?

Property solutions.

We operate as a team though...as an example, there is an investor portal where we can monitor the activity on all of our investor's properties.  

I hired HJ solutions as a general contractor for a job in he south suburb of Chicago.