I hope to get more involved over time and attend the events.  

If the contractor is truly 2 hours away you need to find someone local. 2 hours is too far for every party involved.

I’m currently working on a few new duplex developments in North Houston too

I have the capacity to do ground-up development and have been considering multi-family projects, but land is really tough to come by right now.A few specific ideas I've been thinking about:1.

Over the years, I have 1) invested heavily in education (underwriting, financing, market analysis, asset management, identifying macro/micro trends per market, etc), and 2) developed strong relationships with a network of accredited investors who are interested in diversifying and jumping into the multifamily space.

Any private lender is highly unlikely to go into 2nd position behing seller financing, and most are not going to want to have a seller finance lien involved at all.

Do not get involved with this.

Need some honest advice pleaseWe run a small real estate business - we have been investing in multi-family and small industrial for 20+ years, both as an LP and as a sponsor providing preferred equity to developers.We were spending a ton of time 1) processing and organizing monthly and quarterly reports from our developers and partnerships — tracking performance, spotting issues, comparing progress across deals, and 2) writing reports for our own investors.

No boot or mortgages involved at all, so pretty straightforward.Form 8824 (Like Kind Exchanges) was pretty simple to understand and easy to complete, and it reflected $0 recognized (taxable) gain, just as I would have expected.

But in others I've worked in, the agents get paid for the NNN expenses included.In my experience in Dallas-Fort Worth, I will usually charge 6-6.75% if a cooperating broker is involved, with 2-2.5% going to the list side and 4-4.5% going to the tenant rep.