Quote from @Robert Ellis: Has anyone here successfully raised over $1M in equity for a real estate deal using an online platform?

These properties require more capital up front, but can really help your overall real estate portfolio.

When I first started investing in real estate, I discovered how important it was to identify and capitalize on the right opportunities.

Ready to dive into real estate with a lease option deal?

Quote from @Paul Azad: Real Estate math is annoyingly confusing as syndicators like to use all sorts of different numbers from MOICs to IRRs to AAR-average annual returns to anything else they can come up with to beneficially inflate their numbers for marketing purposes and to avoid the only metric used when investing in all other asset classes, the CAGR- compound annual growth rate, but it's easy to convert, like pounds to kilograms.Here you have 100% in 5 years or 20% AAR, or 2.0 MOIC, you take the MOIC or add 100 to the total return 100%+100% = 200% = 2.0, then you do an exponential equation (x to the Y) with x=2.0 and Y= 1/time in years, so 2 to the 0.2 which is 14.87% that's your CAGR {calculator will have an x to the y button for ease, 2 x/y .2}for example, sp500 just returned 254% over last 10 years, so add 100 so MOIC = 3.54, then to the 0.1 for 1/10 years and CAGR is 13.47%now you can compare returns from syndications to buying VOO or QQQ etc We had a third party track record verification report done and the company who does these (do them alot for mutual funds etc) was asking some of the most basic questions that I thought were no brainers - so I asked - "what are the other ways to calculate these things"?

Hello Account Closed congrats on getting started on your real estate journey. 

Many investors ask me when and how to make the jump from single-family to multi-family properties. The transition isn't just about property size; it's about shifting your entire approach.I've observed that successful ...

I know when i travel to hotels ( which is almost every month) I check for coffee pods and will choose hotel that has them  then i bring my own pods LOL  unless its a real high end hotel and they have the ultra coffee makers  do your cleaners know how to clean the water repository on a Keurig?

I'm estimating it at just over 8%. 7.49% cap rate, 5 yr IRR 8.28%, CoC ROI 5.8% I pulled these numbers from the BP Rental Calculator @Nick Hogan So, with my CFO clients, I would then ask them the question, would you rather invest passively in the market and get an 8%-12% annual return or take on more risk and spend more time investing in real estate that is only expected to generate 8.3% annually? 

A real estate CPA can help run the numbers to see if a 1031 makes the most sense for your situation.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.