Our dollar is losing value so you need to be with a solid operator in institutional assets that cashflow in markets while hedging inflation with tax benefits. 

With real estate, you have to make sure each property is functioning at full capacity or you’ll be losing money.You can analyze properties and be pretty sure (as long as you don't rationalize bad deals into good ones) what your numbers will be. 

When these projects go south and you lose money, it is not the lending. 

I might be bias, but most large corporations are focused so much on scaling that they lose touch on the client's needs.

We can also walk and lose EM (and the money we've put into inspections and PE consultation.)

If things go wrong on a $500K flip vs $1.5 million flip it is much easier to correct and you risk of losing money or not making the profit you want is quite a bit lower.

It's very important to have a good PM and not go cheap or there's a high chance your rental will get poorly managed and you'll lose money in the long run. 

These deals end up sitting for a long time and they lose on it or breakeven.

MiThank you, I believe virtually all markets are over valued, but over the long term many (including my primary market) will have appreciation in excess of CPI. 

Ok lets talk about reality on a warp.. first off the buyer on a wrap has to acknowledge that if the underlying loan becomes due its their responsibility to cure it or they will lose their position.