I looked them up and their address is in Minnesota, but also were incorporated in numerous other states.

@David Ward  Take a look at the Networking Events forum for a meeting tonight (Thursday, Jan. 19th) that you will find of value in numerous ways.

Even if you assumed the same passive return for both options...15%...you would have to analyze and invest in numerous flips (say 15 or so) over the course of 7 years to get the same return as 1 longer term syndication investment. 

I guess I should only really consider LOCs for when my cash is tied up in numerous deals?

In numerous posts I've advised OOs who are making an offer on a single REO or short sale to go find 10 more and make offers on all of them.

These are discussed in numerous other postings.

The U.S. government has very aggressively in numerous forced interest rates to be low and remain low.When interest rates rise to more realistic market levels, and interest rates may be very high due to the 3 Trillion the US government is holding in bonds (recall the Jimmy Carter days), there will be more buyers for more moderately priced real estate with good finance terms.

This website has come up in numerous searches, and I'm hoping the community here may have some insight.The broad strokes: I own a business in a small commercial strip, and the landlord is in serious financial and legal trouble.

In addition to these 2 vacations, I took innumerable 4 day weekends to go camping, snowboarding, and on motorcycle trips.

They can make money in numerous RE markets or outside RE.