All non-accredited investors, either alone or with a purchaser representative, must be sophisticated—that is, they must have sufficient knowledge and experience in financial and business matters to make them capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment.506c: a company can broadly solicit and generally advertise the offering and still be deemed to be in compliance with the exemption’s requirements if: The investors in the offering are all accredited investors; andThe company takes reasonable steps to verify that the investors are accredited investors, which could include reviewing documentation, such as W-2s, tax returns, bank and brokerage statements, credit reports and the like.Again, it would be wise to check the SEC guidelines, but sponsors have the ultimate responsibility to ensure their investors meet the requirements.

Tomorrow is my first time visiting prospective properties and I'm nervous that the agent and the owners aren't going to take me seriously. 

I prospect with it, I have it on my website, and I have it on signs.

So, you might want to consider a sit down meeting with them if they are interested at the prospect.

Hey all,I would classify myself as a buy and hold investor, of Single Family Homes. The lease is expiring soon on one of my properties. FMV for it is about $120k. I owe about $45k on it. Rent is $1550/month. It cash f...

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Hi Mihn, I greatly appreciate someone who has so much experience in the Bay Area real state market giving new the new prospective.

It is great to read about everyone's experiences and the support is super inspiring :) For those saying we should build more reserves, technically our bank is about 23k, we just figure with the sale of our house at 12k and expected up front cost of the prospective first duplex being only around 10k we will have enough reserves.

But, while I've been doing all of this, I also got some great training and I've been at least driving for dollars looking for prospects. 

This is deterring as I’m just getting my credit cleaned up and starting to get some savings built.