They can make your property more attractive, help retain tenants, and potentially justify higher rent.

   #3 if the pricing is such that investors are attracted and HOA does allow investors, they can potentially change the rules. 

Neighborhoods to invest in is a more subjective topic as that is often dependent on the type of investment you're interested in, your price point and even the type of tenants, if that's the route your going,  that you are trying to attract.

If area or units aren't good enough to easily attract sec 8 a lot of these rougher area investments turn into huge losses.

Get involved means more than go to meetings - the Better Government/Lobbying groups within the association attract the money to their meetings/events/volunteer opportunities.

The attraction being that the sponsors believe that the platforms will raise the $, so they're out of that end, well maybe, maybe not so much.....I've raised over $500 million in syndication and funds.  

Trying to get into the nuts and bolts of how he was trying to source a location, project size of preference, what type of financial modeling he does, what kind of tenants he was hoping to attract/the strategy behind it, if he was doing any joint ventures or had done any in the past, if he had taken part in any syndications, what management strategies he was implementing with his current properties to maximize lease uptime and profit, what types of leases he generally favored contracting for his properties--all of that was like pulling teeth.

Common syndicator game of throwing out huge returns when other funds are going under because they want you to only look at that shiny number and not what their past performance has been@Chris Seveney 25.7% Annualized Return / 21.7% IRR.This was my first passive investment and yes I was under educated, naive and attracted by the expressed returns. 

With zoning changes making California’s real estate market even more attractive, now’s a great time to dive in.

That's why the rent is different.In other words, if the turnkey provider is selling the rehabbed property for 150k, they're giving it to you tenanted at $1200/month (they price them based on rent), but if you buy a property for 150k direct then you can most likely rent it for $1400/month (since you would likely get a more attractive property [bigger, slightly better location, etc] since there is no middle man).