Gretna, NE · Member since 2013 · 22 posts · 5 votes
My sister is a first time home buyer. We are looking at buying a duplex together. She would live in one side and we would rent the other. I am co-signing the loan and probably putting up the down payment. She will get the loan so she can get bett terms than I can as an investor. How should we structure our deal so we are both protected and get a fair shake? Not that we don't trust each other, just better to have it all set up from the get go. No surprises on the back end. Thoughts?
Rental Property Investor · Fredericton, New Brunswick · Member since 2013 · 7k+ posts · 4k+ votes
10y
If you purchase the property as tenants in common, then either of you can sell or pass-on your interest independent of the other - unless you have an operation/shareholder/partner agreement which spells out that the other party has first opportunity to purchase the holding of the other should they want to sell.
You are headed in the correct direction that you should have an operating/partnership agreement between you and your sister ... it's worth spending a few hundred with an attorney to have one drawn-up and executed.