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What I've learned through the BP Blogs and Forum posts is that the more leveraged you are and less equity you maintain then the more undesirable you become in a lawsuit.

Account Closed has built here is pretty spectacular, and I hope that you spend enough time on the forums and blogs to come to that same conclusion. 

@Ka'lial Glaud - There are some great blog posts around BiggerPockets about raising capital from Private Lenders.

I have zero experience but I'm loving the blogs/podcast/guides here. 

I have been practicing crunching numbers on properties and since I havent found any blogs with examples for practice, I decided to put one together real quick for fun. 

So if interested I call the people back Well Fiverr is great also for the call center inbound plus outboundSo much more call centersType in Call Centers for Real Estate Investors check the reviews plus the ratings before using the call centersGo look at blogs as well see what other people are doing if they have luck use it if not forget itLater

There's a recent blog on BP on how effective 401ks are.

Is there a certain size of transaction where these become more relevant as I am dealing with modest single family homes making a profit of $20k - $30k.  

Regarding syndication, there are many free articles, blogs, and podcasts on my website.