I utilized (and maxed out) my credit cards to afford the materials necessary to renovate the apartments (I know bad move) therefore I cannot acquire a loan of any sort to fund the initial funds necessary to acquire a hard money or DSCR or rehab loan.

All sales of the property involved the same realtor, the same lawyer, all within 3 years.The realtor pretends to not have known about the restriction, the lawyer is sort of playing dumb but talking about mediating as I point out they missed the restriction that they themselves originally put in.

For the first time, I became the motivated seller.

Capital gains of some sort?

AFter that you send out mail pieces and take calls positioning yourself as a tax councelor of sorts. 

Hi Aqsa,I'm bias but then again, I've owned real estate all over and haven't found a better market for sub $100,000 than Toledo.Low entry price pointHigh cashflowEmployed tenants that pay rent onlineDecent areas with well kept homesNot much appreciation so IMO it's a strict cashflow play.If you find and buy off-market you can snag some great deals for sub $60,000 purchase and rehab.Quality of workmanship is the downside and so is motivation of other folks needed to make investing from out of state work.So beware.These are the downsides bit like with any market, you will always have pro's and con's.All the best 👍

The police sorted everything out.

Consolidated corporate entity with standard departments, balance sheet, etc.While each syndicators motives are different, I would say the first reason is most syndications simply don't have the tenure to even begin to look at institutional investors.

@Matt Wujek please don't be naive and think everyone here is going to help you for free.Many have ulterior motives to chat with you to pitch you on their services.We're always looking for clients here on BP, but are pretty transparent about it.

SF is winning me over at the moment because I'm a beginner, but I'm sort of stuck in analysis paralysis right now trying to decide.Thanks in advance!