There are no secret negotiating tricks, low ball offers with love letters, or highly intelligent investors from afar that can win bids due to awesome use of language. 

However, the best way to get market rents is to call local competitors of multifamily buildings and "secret shop" them as if you were a renter.

And contractual issues aside--from a practical standpoint, GPs would have long-spent that money (if nothing else for the taxes on it) and might not have the cash available to return fees, especially if they are not currently transacting.The dirty dark little secret in the syndication business is it's really a fee-based model. 

I have a kind of "secret empathy" for younger folks nowadays because they've been condition to be these impulsive, reactive hyper-drama organisms. 

What’s the one renovation you’ve found to bring the highest ROI in your fix-and-flip projects?

That is one of the "secret sauces" to investment real estate over other investments.

You wonder some days if there secretly a cyborg, some special DARPA top secret project putting chatGPT into a human looking body to see how quickly ai can take over an industry, lol.

The information about basic real estate investing has been democratized for quite a while, and I can't imagine there are any deep dark secrets being shared there that will get you rich quickly. 

Of course, their motivation is just being altruistic and "sharing the secrets" they discovered, because they want nothing other than "help a fellow investor."

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy Paperback – November 16, 2010 by Thomas J.