.• The confidence to believe they can achieve financial independence.It’s amazing how small moments like these can inspire the next generation to think bigger and dream bolder.How are you involving your family in your real estate journey?

As I take in the advice from Charles, Joshua and now you, sharing your insights, looking at smaller deals might give me the chance to still syndicate while building a track record and achieving proven success.

That is probably a good start to setting the goals you need to achieve to make the dream happen.

With enough knowledge you can make a educated decision on which approach you take.My experience:I personally don't sign up for any program who take you aside during events and try to sell packages that is just blatant sales strategy.Once you sign up there is every attempt to make you sign for their programs for bookkeeping, registered agent, LLC or corp setup fee which have ridiculous even with platinum membership.Basic standard structure they suggest to take advantage of multiple deductions can be easily achieved by proper education or work with a good firm like https://wcginc.com  who is local to you.A umbrella C-crop to manage all other LLC properties and take advantage of many tax deductions that are not available with a llc, its also used to take losses up to 100K as startup expenses and dissolve the entity after few years.Few LLC entities for investing in Real Estate, etc preferably in Wyoming or Nevada ( you can find many companies online who can do this for $150 compared to anderson $1500-$3000) , they will claim they have a secret Operating agreement which is bogus.They certainly try to take advantage of tax loopholes and claim to be smart people, my view they are just taking advantage of numbers as per their own statements.

As a general rule, I aim to achieve a net return of $800–$1,000+ per month for every $100,000 invested.

There are more passive ways to invest in real estate than "turn-key" real estate and achieve those types of returns, but you will need vet the operators and get educated before jumping in.

In any case, I doubt many people on BP would want to buy properties in Switzerland given the very low returns that can be achieved there.

I joined in hopes of getting into my first deal in this upcoming year and making the connections that will help me achieve that 

Did you feel like using a property management company could help you achieve the goals you had for your investment property? 

Quote from @John Postma: Back in 2019, I figured a goal of saving for a year for each downpayment was an achievable goal.