Good Morning Jake, I sent you a private message on a great transaction attorney out of San Jose. 

this conversation is livening up!

I would ask the sellers what their goals and intentions are with the money they're going to make on this sale and focus the conversation on that.

Questions- Is the min BREIT investment $2.5K as in your BREIT review, or is it $25K per the private investor forum? 

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, and 2 years worth of documentable income on w-2s would i be able to get a mortgage loan/lender from an ordinary bank or would i have to seek out some private commercial companies to get a similar type loan that doesn't have an extremely high interest rate?

I sent this reponse over to phil in a private message.

This seems better on paper than a hard money loan or private equity assuming my math is right... what are the downsides?

Looks like tax lien from private seller.Do I understand correctly they've bought an $85 tax lien with interest bid to 8% and now selling it for $1200 so that's where this investor makes their profit?

I'm limiting my searches to duplexes for the time being, but once I get my own living situation figured out, I will hopefully start looking into private money investing.