Crowdfunding makes real estate easily accessible, however, in regard to institutional real estate investments, the advice of an expert who works in the industry every day, knows all the players and their track records, and performs due diligence on each offering is a great benefit to you and comes to you at no cost. 

I would always list on both but if I was only going to list on one I would at least start with both to see which one dominates in my market. 

Now, the bigger players are wanting in on the action and huge asset managers are buying up properties like crazy.

Let me rephrase my original response: I am a bit player!

The name of my coaching business is The Players' Coach.

@David CozziA few other multifamily focused books I think are must-reads: Multifamily Investors Who Dominate by Beau Beery (Finding Deals/Broker Relationships)Best in Class by Kyle Mitchell and Gary Lipsky (Asset Management)The Definitive Guide to Multifamily Underwriting by Rob Beardsley (Underwriting)

The big players and the largest real estate funds and acquirers are large organizations that absolutely care about what the pedigree of its employees looks like. 

I met through an agent, an investor that his pdf presents him as a huge player. he has deals for over 2b all over the world. yet his online presence is close to nothing. both as a person and a company. is this real?

@Dominic Olguin.

Although women dominate residential real estate, the same cannot be said for commercial real estate.