There are currently 3 vehicles with 2 people sitting in each of them and yet another investor driving by now. 

Purchase price: $229,000 Cash invested: $45,000 Made an aggressive cash offer using my HELOC as a vehicle for payment since my primary is paid off.

This is not allowed though on traditional financing vehicles.

@Tatiana Litvinenko If you want to get a good overall of a syndication from start to finish, "Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book" by Joe Fairless is a pretty detailed view at this investment vehicle.

Personally I hate bandit signs, they clutter street corners, potentially cause vehicle accidents or delays and end up as litter more often than not.

@Jonathan KlemmThat’s precisely what I’ve been looking for!

Steering back to RE, these 401k funds are what I'd be using to save for my first REI if I started today and with a lot of fundamental learning ahead I don't think directing that capital to another investment vehicle for the purpose of getting into REI in 3-5 years makes sense right now. 

Did you put a sewer camera into through the whole kitchen to see precisely where the breaks are?  

I also like to track my own personal expenses like fuel for my vehicle, home heating, and groceries too.

However, the assigning of tasks hasn't changed much in comparison to how we did things with the VA.The way we maximized production from our VA was by being very precise with the wording in our task lists.