The company needs to pay juicy commissions to your financial advisor and then make enough money to be worth it for them to play the game and accept the various economic risks.

You can stretch it out to 40 years if you like and do the math and you can prove it on paper, not in reality.There are influences beyond your control at play, the economy, vacancies, depreciation, wear and tear, market influences, your 20 year old property is now in less demand as it has aged and become dated.

Soooooo you can either try to do MASS direct marketing to play the odd's of connecting with the exact right person, in the exact right situation, at the exact right time, which is not just finding a needle in a haystack it's finding a specific type of needle with a specific bend in it, on a certain day, in a haystack of needles..... 

Multifamily market is very hot most properties trading at a 6 cap or lower making most properties pretty overpriced and hard to justify a purchase unless you can create a real value add play. The

Thanks for the insight, I am definitely more willing to play the long game with these deals and I agree that the risk needs to be adjusted to the individual investors goals. 

The syndicator would play the rolls of developer and property manager.

@Justin H Harstvedt, out of curiosity: are you actually considering buying it yourself, or just posting to hopefully play the role of agent for the transaction?

My philosophy is to play the opportunities that life hands you at the time they are handed to you. 

As the New York Times described it, 'The old-timers, who usually play the market by note, are behind the times and wrong,' while the 'new crop of speculators who play entirely by ear are right.''

Play the long game and you will be happy in the end.As you buy more properties the equity will build so at some point you will be able to pull out cash and either pay down certain loans or continue to increase your doors.