If feeling bad for her effects your business decisions you are in the wrong business.Her health and past payment have nothing to do with making business decisions.

For some reason, most listing agents don't think that the hard money construction lender is an asset based lender.

I would recommend just continuing with your business as you otherwise would, and when you have a couple new deals that those buyers might be interested in, offer it up to them first.But:- I wouldn't look for deals they specifically want, unless they are deals you'd be willing to do otherwise;- I wouldn't customize a house for them unless they were willing to put a large enough deposit down that it would cover having to remove all of their customizations should they not follow through on the purchase;- I would pre-qualify them as you would any other buyer, and not give them any preferential treatment.In other words, go into the deal assuming the worst case -- they will ask you to do a lot of customizations and then back out of the deal. 

I have worked some with both on looking @ multifamily properties and both are good business men.  

What makes you think "This person could be an asset to my investing"?

sorry about the slow reply... been busy with my flip project...  

Ramon, if you are looking just to tie up the name see if MI has a name reservation or filing a DBA (doing business as) instead of filing for the LLC.

For my REI business, I am planning on bringing them to my home office as the primary work-space.

I am retiring from my car business in  2 years and plan to be a landlord for 10 or more years.

My question is if I were to go into business with my friend/investor how would we pay ourselves?