Generally buying in nicer areas leads to better experiences and confidence in your investing, but lower cash flow when you move out.

Seasonal Slowdown (With a Twist)The holidays always lead to a slower rental market as potential tenants prioritize family, travel, and gift-giving over finding a new home.

Just struggling to find any good leads with not much access to mls and other paid services.

Brian also mentioned, him and Ron were renovating houses on a large scale and had been building a foundation for massive traction in the workforce and affordable housing market in the Mid Atlantic (my friend Brian is an active real estate investor and GSP’s lead project/property manager).

Not aware of a lender that will allow a rookie to do this.Recommend either starting smaller and working your way up to this or partnering with someone you can learn from that can be your lead with lenders, etc.

They're building apartments/homes everywhere here in Tampa, which leads me to believe that the market here is going to be over saturated.However, I am no expert so there's a lot I could learn. 

It clouds your better judgment and leads to bad decisions.

In Philadelphia, which is where I am located there was a recent re-set on rents that are significantly higher and suspect the increased rents will cause more investors to turn to the program which may cause more lease-up issues.

After 5 years when exits are due the syndicators will start forming new companies to reset the clock and blame previous experience to difference of philosophy of previous partners.

If you start a JV in name but do not give your partners proper control and decision-making rights and the deal goes bad you open yourself up to serious consequences which can lead to SEC violations with extremely high fines.Lastly, you can offer the project up to investors who have no voting or control.