For those of you who are starting out and want to learn more about real estate depreciation and cost segregation! 

I would try not to tie up any of the principal in down payments.Personally, I had a family member do this same thing, but they used an investment portfolio as the collateral instead of real estate.If you play your cards right, this might be the only short-term money you ever need.Please let us know what you end up doing.

-Legal Protection: A real estate attorney should draft the seller financing agreement to make sure your interests are protected.Final ThoughtsThis might be a pretty awesome first project if you can work out some sort of low-down, seller-financed deal with sweet terms.

Our names go on title and our loans have the real estate as collateral so they are “secured loans.”  

I swapped from CapitalOne to Baselane about 6 months ago and it's been highly beneficial to my little real estate biz.

That is just not realistic in this current market.So in my opinion it's important to expose yourself to a large number of deals, so you can develop an intuitive sense of what's reasonable and what's not (and quickly discard the ones that aren't).And it's true that there is no way to 100% protect from fraud (and not just in passive real estate investments but even in public stocks etc.).

If it's not a real job... next.

I’m based in Atlanta, GA, and currently exploring passive real estate opportunities in the area.

We are a customer service company that happens to work in the real estate industry.  

Biggerpockets could implement AI to check EVERY website at once for data which will make numbers more accurate and make investing faster.5: What about tax savings real estate has tax advantages, BiggerPockets could implement a system that shows you step by step how to save money on taxes.