I realize that is another revenue stream, but that seems like that would take your focus away from the larger paydays. 

One benefit to a duplex or larger is you almost never (a few times) have both sides vacant so there is always income. 

Rental Property Investor from Jacksonville, FLPREVIOUS POSTWhy I sold Cleveland.If you're a real estate podcast junkie like me, you definitely have noticed the clear shift towards real estate syndication in the multi-family space over the last couple of years especially.As deals became harder to find in single family and smaller multis across much of the desirable markets,the allure of pooling investor funds to acquire larger assets became a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.Books that were mostly hurriedly written flooded the market pimping the upsides of this strategy.The argument for was simple and convincing:it is better to own 1% of a large deal than 0% of no deal.Personally,I could not help but notice that the popularity of the idea coincided with the rise of real estate crowdfunding.The likes of Realty Shares and Realty Mogul raised a bajillion dollars practically overnight making it very easy for everyday real estate aficionados to own small bites of a mega deal in rural Tennessee at the click of a mouse.A few of my friends experimented with the crowd-funding route, tossing $5000 into this debt offer and $10,000 into that equity offering.These punts yielded mixed results anecdotally, as an equal number seemed to have great experiences to share as did absolute nightmares.To be fair, no real estate niche is 100% fail-safe or iron clad.Money has been lost in a large single family portfolio as well as a personally purchased medium sized apartment complex.It is also certainly true that in the end, every investor will run out of money to invest in more properties if they decide to go it alone trying to rapidly scale up their portfolio, and real estate is most assuredly a team sport at all levels.

Hi Jackson Ms - Loan went into default and im about to sieze the collateral but know nothing of the area. Im in Ca.  Wondering if anyone here could give me some intel on the area as close to these addresses as possibl...

We are going to talk over the smaller deals that we've been tracking and see if we can just go in ourselves, or if we can look at the larger end of our feasible spectrum and justify putting together a syndication with Reg D exemption.

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Notably - typically for larger 'jumbo' loan transactions there is a secondary appraisal or lender review. 

Larger banks like Chase or Bank of America definitely provide peace of mind for liquidity and long-term safety.

Feel free to inquire about their staff qualifications if it's a larger organization.2.

We set it above the previous 18% because Airbnb’s new calculation now pulls from both the nightly rate and the cleaning fee, which effectively takes a larger portion from the owner’s side.So far, this resort-fee approach is working well.