I would typically pick the approach based upon my objectives - i.e. if the tenants were on a term lease and I wished to retain the original end-date, I would execute a Change of Lease.  

What % of ownership do you retain for yourself, even if you did not put any money down, to grow the value of the property?

As a relate observation, if one were to use a foreign domiciled corporation to hold Canadian assets, I suspect there are several countries which would provide more tangible benefit than the U.S.A.

After reading all this, I felt I owed you a retainer.

Thanks Victor, I live off the Tokaido line, I have observed the same thing, but wanted other peoples input.

We have had 2 fraudulent stays and damages with no recourse since Booking.com doesn't retain the credit card info so you're SOL.

By no means am I trying to stereotype or anything of the sort, this is strictly an observation.

Please add any of your thoughts or observations from other companies.

We will retain 50% ownership of all deals with the 2nd option.The stake is high in the Bay Area so is the return.Jay, I'm meeting with Pete tomorrow at Starbucks at Great Mall.

So from a total possible advantage number of 4 from our new list, holding retains them all while note investing or similar only holds 3 of 4.