Every time I play with snakes....Thank you for bringing to light the pain (not to mention the thousands and thousands of fees) to optimize ones ROI through equity harvesting, equity-stripping, leveraging your assets or whatever the latest 'sophisticated' way is to grow.  

Every time someone wants to get sophisticated with little houses it boggles the mind the quantity of potential problems with financing, insuring, title insurance, etc that could be deemed invalid when transferring an asset out of one's name into an entity.   

Hello Bigger pocket folks,They are a group of real estate investor mentors that wanted $40,000 to provide some pretty sophisticated software and walk you through tax liens and flipping your first two houses.

EX1: The Fee Deal This deal is best if you have a large team or overhead you have to pay.1%-2% Acquisition Fee5%-20% Construction Management Fee1%-3% Disposition Fee30% of profit after fees to you70% of profit to capital partnerEX2: Preferred Return DealThis deal is best if your capital partner wants a consistent return with some upside and/or if you think you have a smoking hot deal. 8%-15% Interest payments on your partners capital investment (paid when the deal closes)60%-80% Profit to you after Interest (Preferred return)20%-40% Profit after Interest to your capital partnerEX3:  The Simple DealThis deal is best if your capital partner is not sophisticated. 50%/50% Split of profits0%-2% Listing Commission (If you are the broker)I've put together dozens of partnerships.  

By the time they hit Loopnet, all the serious, sophisticated buyers have looked and passed.

Trying to deal with this in a sophisticated manner with C class tenants could be a nightmare.

Noticing these types of shifts in the free market is how the sophisticated investors are able to make their best guess at where we are in the cycles. 

I was told by equity Trust:We do offer Solo 401(k) accounts, the 401(k) is a Qualified Plan and you must have a properly structured business where you are the only employee/owner and receive W-2 payroll from the business to make contributions.I would have to receive a W-2?  

The area is primarily Hispanic and some black, neighboring (across the street)  the oldest and still very sophisticated area of Kansas City.

MF properties have the same number of surprises as SFRs but when a MF surprises you it's a lot more painful...Most MF owners and especially HML people are sophisticated investors and will foreclose on you faster than you can imagine and they will not hesitate to do that.Get a second job, hustle, maybe wholesale a few deals until you build a small amount to cover your a$$ from surprises before you jump in.