@Aaron Kramer, Welcome to the best REI site this planet has ever known!  

I'm sure the pensions would certainly like to do the same since they are unable to reach those numbers themselves and rapidly moving into more and more toxic assets to try and make up the difference since they are dramatically underfunded, poorly managed, riddled with corruption, pay an enormous amount of money to Wall Street in the form of unreasonable and usury level management fees, and soon will be our next worldwide crisis that unfolds. 

Beware of shady toxic people.  

*smile*I worded it like I did, but the bottom line is everybody on planet Earth is accountable.

I would do the same thing when your the lender and providing the majority or 90% of he capital you have to protect it.. these become contentious though when they don't work out the way YOU the borrower said they would.. is normally what happens.. so just like any HML they get first money out.. every single lender on the planet does that.. so if their is a short fall its on you.Now on the dark web stuff I don't believe that for a second  I know John personally and I am not sticking up for him or his company or his model.

They may be the best deals on the planet. 

No matter where you are on this planet, managing a project from another continent is next to impossible. 

.: thanks for the input, everybodyWe all can find dysfunction slightly corrupt governments are all over the planet.

What part of the planet are you investing in? 

Originally posted by @Pete Barrow:==>OK.... you leverage the family home buy the toughest rentals on the planet and 97% of the people on this site want to do the same thing and cant wait to do the same thing.. so that's your mind set..