I need assurance crunching numbers, and just to make sure my spreadsheets I've made work,well to prove that a good investment is just that.

@Alexander Karaqi - I assure you most hard money lenders have no interest whatsoever in stealing your real estate deal and buying themselves.

This could be the perfect place for a gift (coupled with badly needed repairs to the property) as this "good-will" component may assure them that the new owner knows they exist and is going to provide all-around quality management.

It was an honest omission on their side.The conflict of interest between the maintenance company and the  management company is another problem I had in the past but Jim assured me that Flex Property management does not get any benefits from the maintenance company: they collect bids and pick the cheapest one.

They assured me I was right and that when it comes to auctions the bidding timers display *from the auction company's servers* and ALL timers on ALL their servers SHOULD be properly synchronized for each auction so each bidder sees the same screen at the same time ... no matter how many bidders there are.

Rental Property Investor from Jacksonville, FLPREVIOUS POSTWhy I sold Cleveland.If you're a real estate podcast junkie like me, you definitely have noticed the clear shift towards real estate syndication in the multi-family space over the last couple of years especially.As deals became harder to find in single family and smaller multis across much of the desirable markets,the allure of pooling investor funds to acquire larger assets became a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.Books that were mostly hurriedly written flooded the market pimping the upsides of this strategy.The argument for was simple and convincing:it is better to own 1% of a large deal than 0% of no deal.Personally,I could not help but notice that the popularity of the idea coincided with the rise of real estate crowdfunding.The likes of Realty Shares and Realty Mogul raised a bajillion dollars practically overnight making it very easy for everyday real estate aficionados to own small bites of a mega deal in rural Tennessee at the click of a mouse.A few of my friends experimented with the crowd-funding route, tossing $5000 into this debt offer and $10,000 into that equity offering.These punts yielded mixed results anecdotally, as an equal number seemed to have great experiences to share as did absolute nightmares.To be fair, no real estate niche is 100% fail-safe or iron clad.Money has been lost in a large single family portfolio as well as a personally purchased medium sized apartment complex.It is also certainly true that in the end, every investor will run out of money to invest in more properties if they decide to go it alone trying to rapidly scale up their portfolio, and real estate is most assuredly a team sport at all levels.

As the owner of a 'historical' home, I can assure you that it will suck the life and money out of you on a daily basis.

I know seller will be concerned about due on sale and even though I know what I read, I simply have never done this type of deal to be able to assure him it won't be an issue. 

She is also worried he will lose it someday, he is filing for bankruptcy at the moment but assured us the mortgage is current.

New construction properties may not cost as much as in California but I assure you it is more than "next to nothing."