There are tons of hard money lenders out there, my question is why them?  

If I'm paying good money for a tool, the last thing I want is someone looking over my shoulder.

First, if I understand correctly, the syndication made no distributions at the time because money needed to be spent to develop management capabilities for the sponsor.  

If you find something that works well as a short-term rental, but doesn't work well for you as a home, you'll have money but be dissatisfied when you live there.You don't even need it to produce a profit.

Am I going to make money on it, is there a value you ad opportunity so that I can fix it up increase the rents and thus increase the value of the property.

I actually lent the money to the purchasers to buy the Park. 

They dumped a lot of money into their experiences category and it failed, they will likely fail ago IMHO.

If we move forward with transferring the deed, we would like a way to guarantee to my father and my sister: a) some return from investments made with money taken out of the house, and b) equal shares in the house if we sell in the future, or a buyout path for either of them.3.

As these sub single member LLC will be disregarded for the IRS the only tax return will be for holding LLC.The piercing of the company veil is a concept that if you don’t treat your LLC as a separate entity (failure to maintain its documents, registration, commingling of money, not signing as the LLC, etc...) it will show a judge that the LLC was only your alter ego and he would deny any of its liability protection (inside and outside).California is a state that requires that each LLC owned by a resident or doing business in the state has to pay a $800 franchise fee.

You could always get the extended warranty and still save money over the 3k model.