It's also important to understand what is treated as equity because comparing construction loan options is like comparing apples to oranges and shouldn't rely on the leverage that's promoted without digging into the finer details.  

I get to meet with them in person during a showing and can screen out the obvious bad apples that way. 

I’m based out in the High Desert, mainly around Victorville, Apple Valley, and Hesperia, so I can give you some first-hand perspective. 

And, I had a consultation with them last year and asked for apples-to-apples policies so I could compare premiums against my current policies.

Will an "Apple" of crypto come along some day?

Now, to help explain this picture instead of using pieces of paper we use pieces of Apple Pie as our token of exchange. 

It is as easy to pick out as a wrotten apple in a basket.

You can buy a stock, in lets say apple or Microsoft, but that doesn't give you a seat at the table of CEO, CFO, COO ect... but In syndications, you can talk with the managing partner and get all the information, strategy, and experience ect.... 

They end up making it worse.Even if BP was to issue a warning about an investor, that doesn't remove their content from their website, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Apple and Spotify.

Get three apples-to-apples bids on the same scope, and check license/insurance/references.