Many players will not have your best interests at heart.

You'd have to do the research locally, market by market, to determine who the players are.

The pref layer is a third party institutional player.  

I certainly don't know all of the players out there right now, but curious if there are blatant offenders doing that right now.

You can check out this group to know who the players are.

You need to watch the game, not watch the players, theatrics and colors.

Meet the players. 

Two of the biggest players in this space just folded.

Grocapitus is the most innovative syndication company I have ever seen though, so I would highly recommend attending their webinars and getting involved with them as an investor.For full transparency, his Marketing Director of Marketing and Social Engagement, Eric Bleau, has been my mentor for the past several months so I am a little biased, but, having personally been to multiple boot camps and having met several syndicators like Vinney Chopra and Anthony Chara, I can confidently say that Eric and Neal are two of the smartest, and most well-put-together players in the multifamily syndication world I've met. 

I know a few pro football players that had short careers.