For retail investors I would be more worried about what the sponsor does vs who they are raising from - when I see a fund start branching out and doing something not in their strike zone whether it’s crypto, oil and gas, MF, debt and mobile home parks etc that to me is a red flag - especially if they are also spending their time traveling the Public Relations circuit selling mentorship’s vs managing assets.One last thing to add, I know iof someone who had one investor for 25 million.

I would strike up a conversation with him and see what he thinks.

You will hit some grounders and homeruns and doing your due diligence will keep you from striking out.  

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With all the uncertainty going on with the world, with the wars in the middle east, longshoremen strikes, election in November, and potential for stock market and housing market crashes, should I hold off on purchasing real estate until the world is more "stable"?

I haven’t done this, and what strikes me about your plan is the financing piece.  

When a natural disaster strikes, it affects the entire area—not just your property.

The actual amount seems reasonable and in-line but that structure strikes me as odd. 

So for now I am striking out on my own.