Seeing as most career workers do not get paid enough these days, real estate is more of a future survival method and a way out of perpetual financial hardships by being a career engineer.

@David Krulac - Nice post - as I mentioned above  - the 1% brokerage shops never survive here because the process is incredibly time consuming and complicated.  

All of us in this industry IE flipping rental houses to investors.. have dealt with these lower value assets.. those that survive end up moving up and out of the asset class..

And as these are already broke , how can they survive this financial hardshipThe core difference in our argument is that , I am proposing equal risk share , and opposing exploitation  of any party involved.

if he was doing sfh-type stuff but is now shifting into multi space, i'd question how those skills transfer over into that space. i'd want to have somebody who survived prior economic downturns vs somebody who was successful flipping in a hot market. i'd still give him a listen, tho. maybe he is one of the few that will pull thru.

Sponsors that have survived cycles before have the advantage, and they also have the memories of their struggle to raise capital during their first (and perhaps even subsequent) down cycles.

What I did was figured out how much money I needed per month to "survive," and then figured out how many rentals I needed in order to reach that goal!

I doubt that Senators and Congressmen can survive a re-election supporting a policy that allows for their constituents to be thrown out on the streets.Most Section 8 agencies are run at the state level with funding from the Feds - it will take some time (at least two years) before the dust settles if it does happen....but I doubt it will happen.....but as with any law, the courts have to evaluate the legislative intent. 

You won't survive.

It is not difficult to debug the future from their investments using their own website.most STR/LTR syndication that had strong presence should be :- working in local niche market only- has five to ten years experience- had open book / track record mentality- the audited financial statement should be available to understand the business.STR market itself is very risky investment in my opinion, now you add fund/syndication then you have double big problem.one out of five hotel syndication is going for bankruptcy in the last two years , and we expect STR to survive ?