If you outsource the relationship pieces, it would be hard to create a successful business in REI.

I turn a mostly a blind ear to excuses .

At the end of the day I plug my ears and listen to the podcast again to drown the negativity.

If real estate is the collateral for the loan, are you comfortable owning a piece of real estate should a loan foreclosure occur?

I hope it works out for you,  but keep your eyes and ears tuned to the hard sell, and don't feel pressured into parting with your hard earned cash before you read a book or two about the particular niche you want to get into.  

I know a few wholesalers that would rather have a piece of the pie rather than nothing at all.

What makes a partnership work, is when the puzzles pieces formed by all of the above come together to form the picture that is the partnership.Now, the most important thing, all partnerships are different because all partnerships are based on different properties, in different markets, with different partners, with different desired returns and participation for earning those returns.So, like I said in the beginning, your answer was the statement you made right before you asked the question.

But you need to educate yourself on those aspects of asset protection, & the resident 'sage', Bill Gulley has written some great pieces on BP re: maintaining the legitimacy of the LLC to avoid 'piercing the veil' per se.Good luck

My old landlord would just peel and stick another piece of faux "tile" every time it needed it.I found some of those peel and stick laminate squares for under $20 at Big Lots.

Wow, what a piece of work.