Personally, I would prefer to stay on the LP side if I could but I don't have enough capital to invest in that side to create the lifestyle I want so I am focusing on doing my own deals and helping raise money for others while building my nest egg.  

I work for a small local government organization and would like to build a decent retirement nest for myself and leave decent equity for my only child.

That number where the math works out and they feel comfortable that they can live off their nest egg or dividends for the remainder of their days without working again. 

Retirement calculators say I'm ok....but that is of course, assuming my nest-egg  is handled properly.  

Mind you, I'd still do it because I can't sleep having 100% of my nest-egg in the same asset class, especially when said asset class is paper stocks.

Two years later and we're over 740 CS's and have what we believe is an adequate nest egg to start exploring back into the markets.  

She said there was a rats nest in there when we brought it LOL.

You no longer have access to the potential future nest egg.

So what happens is these fund "managers" take in all this investor capital, buy buy buy ESPECIALLY A class property because the focus is not on COC but safe operations and capital nesting, to put it simply.

Finally starting to have a nest egg of 20k.