Here's a breakdown to my best knowledge  Real Estate Investment Trusts are companies that own, operate, or finance income-producing real estate.

Leverage in an IRA will produce Unrelated Debt Financed Income (UDFI), subject to Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT).There are plenty of investment options to deploy your IRA funds, but again, using your IRA in connection with this transaction will disqualify your IRA. 

When the first deal failed I turned to BP to get answers to questions I had that were not being answered by DFO and share my experience with other LPs.Within a few days I received an email DFO stating:"I will be sending you a legal letter in the mail and email tomorrow regarding your false and misleading internet comments."

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

You'll find turn key properties anywhere.

Hi all, turning over an apartment and it looks like tenants non-slip adhesive bathtub stickers have removed a layer in this tub.

I would lend that 130K in short term lends at 16-20% annualized turning that money over every 6 months and use the returns to buy real estate.

Jeff Sitti - I would buy a performing note that produces 12% returns so he could get approximately $1,000 per month in immediate cash flow.

Advertising (photos and listings.) turn over costs, snow removal, and those kind of things.

There are syndication/crowdfunding funds currently being launched now which intend to take over deals from syndicators/operators (where those same owners would otherwise have to turn the keys over to the bank).Generally the ones in trouble are those that structured too aggressively (high debt, floating rate, etc).