I dare not ask advice where because I’ll get 320 million different opinions and I don’t think my inbox can take it.Purchase strategy – A single-family home is the perfect place to start/learn the ropes, some rehab and off we go.

This is why relationships are critical in syndications and not as much when investing in a typical mutual fund/ETF portfolio.Don't mistake a rising tide - the RE market being up for 9 years - for operational intelligence. not directed toward @omar khan, but just to leave here as information a post I made in a thread a month ago that is appropriate here:when I first started researching investing in syndications, one of the first web pages I found was this:http://www.nasaa.org/22284/informed-investor-alert-private-placement-offerings/ Private Placements and the Risk of FraudEntities raising capital through private placements often have a limited operating history and typically have more modest revenue streams than larger companies.Because private placement offerings made in reliance on Rule 506 of Regulation D are not reviewed by regulators, they have become a haven for fraud.According to the most recent enforcement statistics from the North American Securities Administrators Association, private placement offerings are the most frequent source of enforcement cases conducted by state securities regulators.

Luckily for me, my employer still offers a pension, so I am planning on 401k/IRA, pension, REI, and dare I say social security?

No Judge is going to dare get near allowing discrimination in housing, they will always rule in favor of tenants rights when in doubt.

Like the little girl that says 'how dare you... people are dying' because of cow toots, it just causes eyes to roll. 

The middle class people don't dare to invest and so only the rich turn into richer and to richest.

Hubby would like to quit and work in my flipping / rehab business - but we don't dare.

:D Are there NO alternatives?

Chad Hi..Thank you again..I going to dare another question.I in buying a property, which needs TLC ( I am OK with doing)..the selling price is lower than my minimum loan amount...so I don't want to just offer 10 or 15k over the price..I asked realtor to ask seller to make improvements or buy appliances and I will make that hugger offer justifiable..seller seems not to want to do so..

Dare to be different.