Syndicators advertise for people on Facebook and other sites because most cannot raise institutional money as to raise institutional money they need to have audited financials, a due diligence report done on them by 3rd party to start.

However, a good real estate accountant is worth what you pay them because they will save you time and money. 

Like @Vince Scipione said, good for you for being a decent person!

I hope you haven’t paid them any money.

Save up money.

You want this to be your backup plan if things take longer than anticipated, you do not want to dip into personal credit cards so i would use a heloc to help with down payment but try to keep a nice available balance on a heloc as your insurance policy. 

Then the person is soured on gambling on real estate and not around here to answer questions. 

You'll need something like 125 units netting $200 per door to get there, that's about 10 million worth of multifamily in today's money, so you'll need about 3 million in down payments.

I only spoke with one person so far and they scheduled for more information gathering/ rental investment calls from them this upcoming week.

Quote from @Basit Siddiqi: I personally would not buy real estate with a retirement account.There are just too many headaches that are not worth the potential increased return.Some headaches when it comes to investing in real estate with a retirement account1) LTV values are less and harder to find lenders.2) Potential to sell or partially distibute the property if you have to do a RMD(Required Minimum Distribution)3) If you run out of cash and have to make a major repair, you may be out of luck and have to sell.4) Having to potentially worry about UBTI(Unrelated Business Taxable Income)I would personally invest in stocks/bonds/notes with a retirement account.I buy deals with cash and use a ROTH SDIRA so there are no RMD's.I buy at huge discounts to retail.