Jon I just started on the lending side but the 2014-2015 I was in the fundraising capital side.

Every nonprofit has a website now--it's essential to their fundraising effort.

Highlighting the demographic trends, employment growth, and job diversity materializing in my sub-markets have resonated with foreign investors and have helped them become comfortable.I generally structure my presentations and conversations with foreign investors around the following:Basics of syndication and property ownership in the U.S.Demographic trends, employment stats, and job diversity in the sub-marketSpecifics of the propertyBusiness plan to enhance the property's value during the ownership periodFinancial projection and details on financing termsOverview of property management firm and other key team membersAdditional detail on the surrounding metro area and the location of the property relative to transportation hubs, retail, and employment centersAppendix:Basic requirements for foreign direct investment in the U.S.Anticipated timeline for fundraising and closing

I've reviewed dozens of equity and debt agreements, it just depends on the strength of developer vs. confidence of fund raiser.

I don't use bandit signs but I wonder how many of these same pissed off people call and complain about the church illegally putting up signs for their sales,  the local fore department doing it for their fundraiser,  schools for their events, the family who litters the neighborhood for their yard sale or other small local businesses who put it up for roofs/granite/computers/hair/etc/etc/etc.  

You can seemingly charge your passives whatever you want under Brad's program (subject to what the market will bear, of course), but I believe LU's "speed dating" makes fund raising easier vs.

Its basically deal sourcing (schmoozing with people with property - like bankers), vision and decision making (composing the portfolio with properties), and for fund raising, whether its guaranteeing loans or raising funds from rich people.

The decision to go with 506b or 506c depends on your Investor pool and fundraising strategy.

Brookfield’s new fund, for example, purchased the two-thirds stake in mall giant GGP Inc. that Brookfield didn’t already own.Brookfield’s scale enables it to get returns “you simply can’t get if you’re an individual investor buying an individual mall,” said Brian Kingston, chief executive of Brookfield’s real-estate arm.Blackstone’s global co-head of real estate, Kenneth Caplan, who declined to comment on the fundraising, said markets are fickle and whether or not there are opportunities to buy “can change pretty quickly.”Some funds are setting less ambitious fundraising targets.

Just wait until they ask you to attend their next political fundraiser....