Posting on BP and sharing real estate information with your sphere of influence (and social media) is a great way to get started.

I would definitely network within your sphere and see who has some money and go in on the property together or pay them back with interest (I'd recommend the payoff part with interest, getting into a property with someone is bigger than being married in my opinion).

@Steve West , as @Andrew Syrios stated, private lenders should be people already in your sphere of influence.

Someone who's very good at networking and community-driven stuff may not necessarily also be the current expert on websites or Instagram, but as far as training on the actual job, effectively marketing to community and sphere, and actively soliciting referrals, they might be able to help a lot - and those are huge cornerstones of success in real estate.A busy agent might struggle to find time to mentor someone, but a successful agent who's not as full on as they used to be (but who still knows their stuff) could be the right kind of person, and obviously it depends as well on what you'd expect to pay them.One thing to keep in mind is that while it's easy to pick out the big agent names in a community, there's usually a large under-the-radar segment of lesser known agents who may look like your grandmother or your kid's high school teacher and who are quietly "crushing it" in real estate.

You are not going to win that business.Instead as a new agent, focus on your sphere of influence.

It also can provide the high incomes required to create the capital to invest, it’s also a very time consuming occupation.So my two cents is……….Experts generally say two ways to get into multifamily - either find a deal or raise capital.Given your occupation and past and current investments in syndications and funds, capital raising appears to be the better fit for you.Put together a list of folks in your personal and professional sphere…….and start to let them know you are investing in apartments. 

That is, with the kind of equity you have, I would say you could continue to increase and diversify your passive investments, and aim for a "barbell strategy" that combines the double-digit returns commonly earned in the MF/commercial value-add and stabilized sphere with the single digit gains you can get from anything from CDs (paying 5% per year now) to debt funds which pay 6-10% per year to stocks with dividends (2%-X% per year overall, over time). 

It will tell you how to use your own sphere to generate leads for free instead of pounding the phones and wasting your time calling people who get 50 calls a day from people doing the same thing.

I like what I'm hearing from them so far and I think it is insurance the way an insurance company would be set up if they understood investors, but I'm hoping someone in the BP sphere has some depth of experience with them.

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