In the long term real estate will make you wealthy, but it won't do it quickly, and the cashflow won't be nice and uniform where you can quickly start living off of it in the first few years to upgrade your lifestyle.Cash flow can be tricky until you scale to a large enough portfolio where your expenses tend to balance themselves out each month.  

- Purchased a 1960's vintage building, 18 units, in 2017 for $1.5M- In a major urban city in the northeast- Put $400K down and have paid down $100K in loan (so the balance is $1M)- Purchased it to supplement my 9 - 5 and use it as a resource of income to retire (15 20 years from now)- It's comprised of studios, 1 bedrooms and 2 bedrooms. 

NOTE; This is skewed as I don’t look at any notes that won’t yield at least 12% at offered pricing, I don’t look at any residential notes, only commercial, and no notes under $500,000 principal balance, so most notes are eliminated before hand. 

Its appeal as a desirable coastal city helps maintain rental demand.Fort Walton Beach: Located in the Panhandle, Fort Walton Beach and its surrounding areas offer a mix of steady rental demand and affordability, providing good cash flow opportunities, especially for single-family rentals.Pensacola: This city offers relatively high rental yields due to its affordable property prices and stable rental demand, making it a solid choice for cash flow-focused investments.These areas balance stable cash flow with potential for modest appreciation.

He doesn't have the liquidity and it's less regulation and checks and balances through crowd funding than with underwriters.Stay far away from this game; unless you like to lose money and increase your personal/family financial stress. 

It was intended as a fix and flip, and our original exit strategy was reached. we bought with hard money then did a refi to convential because repairs became drawn out and rented for some cf to by is time. we ended up selling for 405,000 and our loan balance was 235,000.

Then switched over their remaining balance to my other account & put that one as I moved out.

Or is the deposit used to pay a delinquent balance?

For bigger transactional income we have our building projects which I have to PG however even though the risk is always there we have been blessed these last 4 years on these that equates to about 120 homes built and mostly all sold.. then the balance in Notes a few long term.. and JV partner on land deals and flip houses those have zero debt.

The only financial data our VA adds to Stessa is collected rent, mortgage balances, market value and any capital expenditures.