Way too many investors are trying to figure out how to scale using any loan possible or OPM, but that's not a framework for future success.

Hopefully they'll be able to provide me the proper guidance where I could just fill in the pieces to their framework.

Cashflow Quadrant is great for developing a framework on how to think about investing, specifically using assets to buy/offset liabilities.

We do have comparable entities in Mortgage Investment Corporations (MICs), but their operations are a little different (naturally as the legal and regulatory framework are different).

REOs have a framework, whether auction or direct through the REO agent, that you need to follow to maximize your chances of winning a multiple bid situation and you also have to keep bidding as the bids will get rejected over and over again.

I would immediately enforce the lease and move forward regardless of any stories within the framework of the law.His opinion of you, good, bad, or indifferent is irrelevant.

What the USPAP is, is a framework of how to approach an appraisal in the context of how to provide a credible appraisal to an appraisal client.

This framework allows them to advertise their offering and raise money from non-accredited investors, but it places limits on how much a non-accredited investor can invest.Most real estate syndicates use the Reg D exemptions, either rule 506(b) or 506(c).506(c) allows the issuer to advertise, but does not allow them to raise money from non-accredited investors under any circumstances.506(b) allows the issuer to raise money from up to 35 non-accredited investors, and there are no limits on how much the non-accredited investors can invest.  

TLDR: In this environment it's especially important to look at and to know exactly what you are getting for your money and if it doesn't makes sense within the framework of your personal REI goals, to walk away and keep looking or wait.

How does capital gains profit from LP participation fit into this framework?