Train with the one thing you have with you all the time FIRST and then go to external weapons if you like.I hear all the time from some 400 pound fat guy they have a gun and go to the range once a week but if they walk more than 20 feet they get out of breath.  

If you've got a fat stack of cash to work with, you can make all-cash offers on "as-is" properties with a fast closing, no contingencies, and get properties for 75% of market value that way.

Sounds enticing:  buy property after property for .35 on the dollar, quickly flip it to someone else for a fast, fat profit. 

Highs typically range from 87°F at the start of the month to 74°F by the end, with lows cooling between 65°F and 53°F.

Compare the budgets, where is the fat? 

The "Value add" by most wholesalers usually adds up to a big fat zero.

Think the puck stops with you trying to be some form of leader on here.Self proclaimed "Zen" of Real Estate, give me a fat ****ing break. 

So maybe that's stacking savings, maybe paying down debt, improving FICO, or maybe it's raising capital, whatever, the details don't matter because there is 101 flavors out there, all that matters is what is your 1-Thing NOW, do that, THAT alone, with fanatical focus like a fat-boy on cake!

Pigs get fat and happy, hogs get slaughtered. 

An institutional investor with a history of working with syndications in these kinds of deals is going to have a much better handle on fair and realistic fees the syndicator should be collecting for those services versus a bunch of lps that may be working on the first syndication deal and frankly glosses right over those issues when they see 15% annual returns and a nice fat cash bonus on the planned exit.