This is increasingly common when you have multiple tenants for longer periods of time or when tenants are moving in and out.The simplest method (for the Landlord or PM) is to keep the deposit in place and return it to all remaining tenants upon termination.

The simplest answer is to buy a quality lease from an attorney that is experienced in real estate.

Single member IRA LLCs are much more flexible and cost effective over the long term.With that in mind, if you can make investment A with your IRA LLC and your wife can make investment B with hers, then that is clearly simplest and cleanest. 

Locals and investors are talking more frequently about Opportunity Funds, Opportunity Zones, and the tax incentives they provide, but very few people are familiar with how they pertain to Sarasota.According to fundrise.com, “Opportunity Funds promote investment in the development of low-income communities across the US, by offering investors federal tax advantages that are only available through the new Opportunity Zone program.”In the simplest of terms, the government is providing tax breaks and incentives to investors in exchange for providing much-needed capital to low-income areas.

The simplest way to break you goals into daily actions is have 3 to 4 weekly goals and then set no more than 3 must do action items each day to meet your weekly goals.In order to set weekly goals you should have 4 to 6 quarterly goals that have actions steps to accomplish them.

I've put together PPMs for real estate and small business, and they can get complex quickly even for the simplest capital raise. 

The simplest answer to your questions is both.

Occam's razor the simplest solution is the one they told you which is an unexpected move. 

I know this seems like common sense but most of the time it is the simplest solutions to problems that work the best. 

For funding flips with private lenders, I think the simplest and a very equitable structure is to simply do it with debt.