What ever hat you might wear in a N/P circle you need to be viewed as the expert in your area to command respect of other participants and have the ability to lead them in the direction needed to accomplish the mission.

With larger tracts of farmland in the midwest yield can be good some years as the highest lease rates are when you are willing to accept variable payout as a participation on crop yield.

Well, a friend of mine (very wealthy) participates in funding some loans this bank makes.My current set of questions will revolve around what their lending guidelines are, what types of portfolios/properties/deals they'll lend against, if they have any bad assets/loans on their books they want to dump, and where/how a small fish like me can become a bigger part of the food chain.

As a passive investor with active participation you are allowed to take up to a 25K loss against ordinary income.

Hey BP fans, well its been just over 1.5 months since I made this thread and I'm proud to say that today I officially passed all the required tests for my Missouri real estate license, I just need to submit the paperwork and wait for the license to come in the mail!

Good thing to see you participating.

I think it's the thought of most folks who haven't participated in the self-storage industry (as was my mindset until I browsed your blogs; great writings btw!)

BP has been great resource, and I'm looking forward to ramping up my participation

Also, you cannot @mention somebody who has not participated on a thread unless you are already colleagues on BP.

It is typically just a preference that they wish to focus on their HUD allocation of properties (their bread and butter), and do not wish to participate with more involved A-B-C transactions.