For a few hundred bucks, hotel & air fare... you can immerse yourself in a pool of hundreds of sophisticated and accredited investors.Step #2- Follow up with all the people you met and strengthen the relationship you started. 

My wife has a full time job that pays roughly $50k but I’m the stay at home dad who’s homeschooling our kids.

Recommend checking those investments out if you qualify as an accredited investor.

You can also consider passive rather than active investing once you become an accredited investor.

Fundrise is something I have put some funds aside in, and am looking to get into yield street, but I am not an accredited investor.I also do enjoy doing the work but would like to see some progress.

I recently was able to walk a 156 unit in which I'm looking to make a investment in the next few weeks.I'm assuming you are accredited since most syndicators require you to be accredited, but I feel this is the best way for me to get into the multifamily world and also you can add these investments into your resume before starting to do deals yourself. 

I agree - starting a 506(c) where your dealing with accredited investors and can market is the way to go. 

You have to be Accredited to invest in DSTs by the way - $1m net worth excluding your personal residence or alternatively you meet certain income requirements.

I'm a new BP member in Tampa, recently moved back from Sydney Australia, currently looking for my next rental property and have set a goal of 18 months to my first apartment complex.On my off time I am a homeschooling mom of 3 little ones who enjoys reading non fiction, canoeing and camping. 

Steve For full disclosure, I am personally in this space, before being in the space, I had a chance to review hundreds if not thousands of syndications and varying models of such.Critical items:Minimum Investment AmountAccredited or Non-accredited or (Mix)Sponsor Track RecordCritical impact items that will cause the value to increaseSponsor FeesSponsor Equity Participation (Always like to see skin in the game)Cost of capital and capital (capital stack structure)IRR (will predict timeline so time is X)Cash FlowCash on Cash %Hope this helps a little bit