I believe in taking things one step at a time.

In taking licensing courses in California and Texas, I have found most of the educational materials to be of low quality.

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I'm not interested in taking a home equity on the existing property or even a new mortgage on new property for the simple reason that I'd like to allow the business to grow on its own.

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I get the terminology but still dont the confidence in taking that path.

How ever, getting started and finding good properties to invest in takes a bit of time, and we may need to adjust our strategy.

I want to have a solid  process / team to handle my intake analysis, follow up, and deal chain. 

I do have a filter on the water intake to reduce potential hard water issues.

So theres a GP who’s done about $2B of deals and I want to help them expand in Texas, and find my friends fund a good investment.The GP is putting $200m equity to work a year roughly, so they are doing well w raising money, but they are def still interested in taking on additional funds and making deals.I have done a lot of market research and put together a ppt to pitch their investments and am going to set them up on a call with the LP.