Personal experience. I DO believe that partnerships can work. I still believe in ethics and that there is still good in people even when things come up. We owned land together with my FAMILY, for yeeeeeears. Family that we were best friends with and did literally EVERYthing with since before I was born...Well, lets just say, we no longer talk. The land dispute (among other factors) was the the final nail. We ended up having to sell our half off to them just to get out of the situation. It is very difficult. You never Really know someones true character until money is involved and its unfortunate that something material like money can break up lifes most important bonds. Anyways, I think id be a land partner again if the right friend/family situation arose but, it is Very tough