@Tyler Bilinovic my opinion is to get an accountant earlier in your investment career because your savings compound.

Quote from @Melanie Baldridge: If you think about your career and your journey to build wealth over a long time horizon, this is still the strategy that I like most:1.

@Bryan SchwartzWe built our list through research and referrals and try multiple vendors in each field to rate them.

I’m used to dealing with sharks in my career field. 

You’re in an old field with not a lot of water movement.The more you run the water the less it will smell.  

Can be profitable ,BUT, my experience as a hard money lender is that there are many companies operstimg in this field that aren’t very stable financially.  

I do agree the conservative W2 earners who go about their careers responsibly setting aside retirement funds are best suited to be LP investors but I do not believe most syndication students are deciding between trying their hand at being a GP and making an LP investment.  

This entails building personal/working relationships with people successful in the field.

I am sure early on in your career you`ve made mistakes and trusted the wrong people/professionals, and I bet that didn't prove you a bad real estate professional.

I've used Forrest and Fields to manage my 8 unit for 2 years.