I’ve been doing a lot research and trying to cut through the bull being promoted by “gurus” and just getting honest feedback. 

These are significant numbers.”Apparently, being educated, liberal, or living in a diverse community does not prevent racism.

Week-end cover, vacation cover, it is a diverse, big job.

Look for places with low unemployment and diversity in their employee base.

Hello @Gabriel Ruiz, welcome to El Paso, Texas.You can get started with $85K, but the ideal way to do it is to use other people's money to maximize your returns.I use local hard money lenders that have diverse terms and use them depending on what my goal is.For flips, look for no prepayment penalty and low origination points.$85K will only get you a 1400 - 1800ish sqft single family home depending on the area, then you have to look at the cost to fix it.

Schools, Safety, getting into the city relatively easily with or without a car and ideally a diverse crowd of people are important factors for us. 

Put a promote structure in place, specially for this one off deal.

@John Falco We chose Raleigh/Durham due to strong market indicators relating to population growth, tech job growth & economic diversity and great rental growth.

I subscribe to both, but we (the CRE community) need to push / help promote other platforms to keep the CRE search / research platforms competitive.  

They have an intensive vetting process and guide sponsors to the offer that would perform best with their audience.From what I saw, most multifamily offerings have an 8% preferred return and 30-50% sponsor promote thereafter.