But I know a lot of people who tried on their own like this and have failed and are still failing.

If you identify more than 3 properties that add up to more than 200% of your selling price then you have to buy 90% of them or your exchange fails and you owe all the taxes.

I'm not sure why my colleagues believe that "this does technically satisfy the requirements on paper" and discuss failing a potential audit. 

The only way to start is to try and fail fail fail because that's how we learn. 

This can fail and is as much of a weak point for water penetration. 

Standalone brick and mortars like compass are the ones that are burning through money and taking it from the agent and customer it is very hard for compass to survive in those environment, as company like as big as amazon or apple move to hybrid work environment, the compass failed to grasp the spirit hence their transaction cost is so high.

I fail to see how it would make sense for me to pay cash for the car.

@Scott Trench I have family members who believe we’re failing, I guess it’s called “preppers”, they’ll call very concerned to let us know to take cash out for a bank run or stock up as food will be scarce next month or the last one was the eclipse was going to cause an earthquake taking out the Midwest.

Of course always in enrich your knowledge in real estate but at the same time take action quickly do not wait even if you don’t know something 100% free stylet kick it out and take care of it as you go along fail forward that’s the only way you’ll become successful in both being a real estate agent and being a real estate investor.

.: Quote from @Calvin Thomas: I will also be looking for deals to scoop these failed syndications on pennies on the dollar during the end of 2024 and through 2025.