Real estate investing has been a passion of mine for time with my mother also having invested early on where I likely have gotten the love and desire to follow similar foot steps.I have taken last 6 months to educate myself and currently own a single family home as primary residence and would like to expand to multi family properties (2-4 units) for additional stream of income, not to mention potential tax benefits for long-term investing.Based on current living situation, I have a fair amount of equity established in my primary residency along with having enough cash to either pay off house completely or use towards investing in a multi family property.Given that I'm the sole source of income for our household with my wife being the home maker for our two kids under 2, trying to weigh out risks with getting started now or perhaps waiting. 

Eliminate debt, establish a budget, and save.

So I think I messed up when establishing this LLC and chose for it to be treated as a partnership.

When it's a well established company like Apple, they aren't likely to be going out of business so there is some certainty that there will be in increase in demand for quite some time.

Since you'll be investing out of state, establishing a good team will be crucial.

This would be my first foray into real estate investing... and I absolutely 100% agree that the best move is to establish a track record using my own money and conventional loans before considering using private money.

Give me the boring option that promises a modest return all day.Yes ...The problem with syndication mainly twofolds :1. they are targeting newbie investors, many times with financial due diligence unawareness, these newbie investor doesn't know which syndicator has actually good operating company with established vertical or just two three people operation.

We have chosen one municipality to do Section 8 due to the relationship we have established with the director, case workers, and inspectors.

@Bryce Jamison As long as the previous owner keeps up with the maintenance of the home and keeps it in good condition, I tend to favor older homes in established neighborhoods.

Now they want to put the properties into RE Gain Fund, LLC UpREIT (which appears to have been established in 2023).