You will also learn a lot reading books, some of which may be published by the "guru's" that want you to buy their $ x,000 program to learn the "easy" way to invest in RE.  

Here is a blog post I have just published about multifamily syndication deal business plan writing you may find helpful: Multifamily Business Plan 101

The expenses seem a bit low, but they just did a lot of capital improvements which may explain that number.As for what to expect in maintenance costs, well that varies of course but nationally for multifamily naahq.org publishes repair/maintenance costs at 3.7% of gross rents.

@David Zheng,If you publish your success, people are going to ask what worked for you.

The Wall Street Journal publishes an article about aver tax prep costs every year.  

If they haven't compiled their list for this year yet, maybe she was actually providing some useful information by saying it's published in June.

I recently joined BP after listening to a couple of the terrific audiobooks by BP publishing.  

I'm very particular about where I publish my contact info and I'm protective of my information.

The signs are appearing to become more and more obvious as each month's economic/real estate reports are being published, but it is not clear if we will see just a slowdown or a downturn.

Part of the problem is that the hard money space is now calling themselves private lenders, which leaves individuals like me who lend out their own capital (also calling ourselves private lenders) in a weird place because those two business models are very very different, both from the lender and the borrower standpoint.BiggerPockets published our book recently about private lending.