Apartment Investing Education - Recommendations?

[Derek Petersen]

Anyone attend an apartment investing course that was worthwhile? I see Brad Sumrok has a course; anyone take it? I'm already experienced on 2-4's but thought it might be worthwhile to invest a little into education before going bigger. Thoughts or recommendations?

[David Thompson]

Derek,

What are your goals?  Anyone can go to a rev'd up two dayer and spend time w/400 folks from all walks of life (hype mania) and feel like it was worthwhile.  If you drill down and really think about what you are trying to accomplish you may help yourself narrow it down.  I can tell you a lot of folks go to these  2 dayers since I see them in my local Austin MF meetup group.  They say its good but not one is doing serious syndication work or working w/someone that's doing it on a regular basis from what I can tell.  They look more like passive investors to me, better educated yes, but not really getting a ton of practical experience by and large on syndicating deals.  Can 400 folks really get the attention you want?  That's 400 folks who attend it every quarter times 4 = 1600 students.  Sounds like a cattle call to me.  Great networking I've heard and that is always good.  Just understand what you want.  I went the 1x1 route and now support a syndicator doing a lot of solid deals and gaining valuable experience off that. Many ways to go, just understand what you are looking for and what you want out of it and what you are willing to put into it.