While these eat into returns, many investors find the trade-off worth it for the passive income and simplicity.3.

There are trade off marketing channels such as cold calling and mass SMS. 

I am weary of trading my time for money and wish to be more present for my children while building generational wealth.

Any time you can avoid adding more trade lines to your credit and increasing your DTI its best.

@Adriana Siu real estate is a long term hold, not a trade in my opinion.

Call it a partial or hypothecating or both but that’s another concern.Lastly does each person involved in the trade understand all these surrounding facts?

Private placements are inherently risky by that very fact - they are not regulated or audited  to the degree that a publicly traded company is.  

I strictly use them to trade into places I really want to go and I can never, ever beat the price I pay for a week as compared to normal rentals rates which are three to seven times higher per night.  

The IRS requires the hours to be specifically in real estate trades or businesses, which typically means activities directly related to owning, developing, operating, or managing real estate properties.IRS Publication 925 outlines what counts as real estate trade or business activities, like development, construction, acquisition, management, leasing, and rental operations.

I don't regret waiving my inspection (or ability to negotiate on that), but I probably would have sent a few trades through.