And I didn't read about escrow being used this way but I thought it would be helpful if a seller might feel insecure with just a copy of a JV agreement from some investor taking control of their property perhaps in another state.

Scott Cardinalli has a good company called Scott's Precision edge.

I'm in love with the business simply due to the amount of control available to structure deals in countless ways in real estate.

With the dollar range you are talking about, that should be very easy to build a pool of people who want to invest with you - as a private lender.Now on the business side of "private lenders" - these are companies that have a source of capital they do not control.

@Austin Fruechting Congrats on being able to truly say that you are your own boss, and can completely control your future!

Some things will be out of the control of the tenant.

The language needs to be precise.

Those details will be worked out before anyone takes control or possession of the property to avoid the issues down the line.  

Landlords that feel it is necessary are over controlling.

Basically instead of gifting money over time, he could buy/control an asset right away that we could all use and then gift it to us incrementally.My thought was he could fund an LLC with myself, my brother, and him as the partners in the LLC and then gift his interest over time at an amount that stays under the gift tax.