Based on your personal strengths and weaknesses, determine which roles you would be able and willing to do.3.

@Josh Tyler Since you're in the DFW area, try giving Terry or Tyler Weakly a call at Emerald Dolphin. 

Deflation is the real threat due to weak but improving job conditions.  

Bank Alternate programs are fairly painless if one of LLC members is a weak link credit wise.

I don't want them to mistake our kindness for weakness.

Make sure you truly know the person, they are strong where you are weak, and you both have the same goals and attitudes.  

That's better than S&P500, but is that too weak for real estate?

I just remember my clients that I sold a bunch of RE in Portlandia in 05 to 06  they also bought 4 plexs in PHX same years.. by 08 09 the 4 plex's were hundred % vacant and the owners let them go to foreclosure lost their money and their credit.although that was GFC and I am certainly not predicting that again.. but I suppose there could be some weakness on the lower end rental.. 

@Kim Meredith HamptonI agree, I'm usually in all the properties several times per year but this was going so well it didn't seem out of place - and that's where I became the weak link!

Throwing an ad into a local paper is meaningless if the actual ad you created is weak and lazy.