I'm starting my real estate investment journey in the U.S.

I found this deal on the MLS and paid market value, I even increased my offer to get a concession from the seller to reduce my cash out of pocket and buy my interest rate down.

Hi Luz, congrats on taking your first steps into real estate investing.

If the syndication deal was without significant risk, they wouldn’t be attempting to offer/providing 17% return.

With the lower LTVs offered by senior lenders these days, it may be tempting to look at preferred equity and it may make sense since technically it is cheaper than LP equity, but also keep in mind they have a higher liquidation preference (obviously) but will often want all the cashflow (or a majority of it) to come to them before the LP investors and will also want large reserves, so make sure you model out the cashflows and understand the end-to-end deal with the preferred equity investors.We have some institutional investors with whom we did a combination of a pref and JV deal and it worked quite well for everyone including them and the LP investors.

My co-worker got me into the youtube real-estate rookie and now I'm here on bigger pockets learning more.

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Determine a goal you’d like to work toward financially, is it “financial freedom” (whatever that means to you), buying a business, becoming self employed, becoming a full time real estate investor, having enough cash for your kids college education, having enough to retire, becoming a centi millionaire, etc.3.

There were 3 different parties offering on this off-market property including myself.

Orlando is very competitive, therefore you have to provide an extremely clean, themed out home with close proximity to the parks in a community that also offers great resort amenities.