It's a partnership.  

If you are just starting out and plan a long career of real estate acquisitions and you don't have a sugar daddy, then financing of one sort or partnership, joint ventures are the way to go.If you are winding down, selling off property, preparing for carefree retirement, then maybe all cash is the way to go.

It means nothing when it comes to the nuts and bolts of a partnership.

I am open to partnerships and assisting prospective investors in doing the groundwork they need.Thanks

Personally, I'd much rather there be a partnership where we do lots of deals without lots of negotiation, but that's up to you...if you'd rather every deal be a tough negotiation, I'm okay with that too (I dislike negotiation, but I tend to be pretty good at it)...-  You obviously don't need to bring me your deals before you distribute them to other people, but if you bring them to me first, there's a MUCH greater chance I'd be interested.  

I could possibly do a partnership with someone who has construction skill and funds to do the development without purchasing it outright.    

Could these be alleviated by using my smaller downpayment to get into a partnership?

We are both eager to jump in but are running into road blocks on how to structure this small partnership. 

We don't typically sell our properties but we are in a scenario where we have a partner that has a life situation requiring the partner to need to get out of the partnership which we are deciding to sell.

But this time around we were considering sending two-to-three mailings to the list BEFORE sending an invitation to the luncheon.This would hopefully build familiarity, credibility, and somewhat of a rapport with the members of the mailing list, to get more attendees to our next luncheon.Aside from Alan Cowgill, I have yet to find someone that has had success with developing new lender partnerships with this method of inviting strangers to a meeting.SUMMARYSo before we invested into hosting another luncheon, I wanted to run this by you guys.