Those agents have their ego at the expense of the relationship, and there are such agents actively participating in this thread.

Greatly increased lending capital by transitioning from a ‘blind pool” fund to a series LLC / syndication model where investors know the property lending deal before committing to any loan and can “pick and choose” whichever loans they do or do not want to participate in.  

I will be proud to add it to my RE portfolio even if the overall return may be single digit.Best wishes and be sure to do thorough and conservative underwriting on any RE investment.

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I am going to schedule another meetup, beginning in September. however the last one only had a few people, and they only work if we have good participation.

Overseeing tradesmen while they work on your properties sounds like material participation to me.

Hi Kyle,My wife is a dentist and the proud owner of Vitality Dental in the Northland of Kansas City.

pretty small hurdle to have a good win as a private lender just get paid as agreed.now equity participation loans those can spin the needle pretty well ..

Many other projects have reduced or suspended planned CF distributions and I've also had a few capital calls in which I did participate since the business case still made sense (the MF in Florida had a capital call to finish construction and get through stabilization and it still returned the 32% IRR).I expect almost all of the deals to be OK, just later exits than originally projected.I am very concerned about one project and have already written it off in my head.  

I know that's not the news you want to hear but perhaps hearing your story will lead to other helpful advice from forum participants.