It is really helping me make a clear decision on this partnership.

A poor risk type borrower can't really obtain insurance to cover their deficiencies to my knowledge.You'd probably be better off seeking a guarantor that can cover the deal. :)

@Jacob Patterson I had some what of a similar decision to make several years ago.

Hopefully u can make ur own decision whether to use a realtor or not.

My day job is Avionics Software Engineer, so I am trying to learn how one evaluates such commercial properties and how one obtains factual information to based investment decision on such class of properties.The broker who proposed this purchase provided nice graphs with comparable curves of average vs. the property metrics, such as prices per sq.ft, vacancy, price per unit etc.However, the report is missing correlation to a specific properties the comparison is based on.Am I being unreasonable by asking comp information that is customary for SFR and low count multi?

You'd be surprised at how many folks have cash on the sidelines that they would rather invest in hard assets with someone experienced like yourself vs. investing in the stock market with people they have never met.I could go on for hours - but as you can see by the responses from other syndicators and promoters on this post, we do not regret doing the heavy lifting to get this part of our business off the ground.Deciding to syndicate is the second best decision I have made in my 20 year career in Real Estate, 2nd only to the decision to sell all my houses and apartments to focus all my efforts on buying only Self Storage Facilities.Keep us posted on your progress...Scott Meyers

Just a different way of looking at the situation for James to consider in his decision.

I would make sure the new job paid me as much or more than I'm making now, of course.I don't think this decision really relates too much to you being a wholesaler.

It's hard to dig into the individual motivation for any particular bank unless you know who is in charge of the decision making process.

I made a decision to get into investment property last year.