Marketing and getting calls or leads is only a fraction of what needs to happen.

You will want to buy at a fraction of what you can afford so that you can still qualify for a mortgage on the next one.

I don't know this company, I can't speak to them, but I can as to pooling money with other investors and accepting fractionalized security interests, not a good investment approach, in some states it's illegal on the street level, I understand it's allowed in Cali, being allowed isn't an assurance of it being a good idea.Welcome Todd, is that the company Terry inquired about?

I will use a fraction of this money towards a newer car and use the rest towards RE investing.

They are barely a fraction of a percentage compared to the swine flu. 

Quote from @Rick Pozos: Hey @Kristi Goebel if you look at their website it looks like they are NOT syndicators, they are selling fractional shares of properties.

So maintenance expenses etc will be a lower fraction of total price.

Hi all,When analyzing our deals, we've been leveraging publicly reported property taxes, which often are a fraction of a percent (e.g. 0.70%) of the purchase price - in this example, on a $100K home, the annual tax would be $700 so divide that by 12 months = $58.33 per monthOne of the lenders we are considering working with says that out-of-state investors pay 2% of the purchase price in property tax, which significantly skews our cash flow into the negative.In this example: 2% of $100K = $2,000 annual property tax for OOS investor, divide by 12 months = $166.67 per month, over a hundred bucks more than what I'd been anchoring to...I tried googling whether this was the rule, and even searching the BP Forums, without finding anything that confirms this.Which number should I be using?

I walked away discouraged because I didn't even want to pay the lower level cost to become a passive investor (a fraction of the $20K charge for being mentored).

That won't be the case when the market turns.Many of us vet hundreds of offerings and sponsors and only a small fraction of them meet our criteria.