Make sure whoever is trying to raise the funds has proper procedures, accreditations, and experience or things could go wrong down during the process.The ongoing fees for 3 years could end up being excessive.

You might as well say "you know you're asking $150K too much.." as well,  and they wouldn't know the difference.My wife as I mentioned came in as VP of a finance company set up by a large insurance company that had excess cash to invest, too much, so they decided "why not a finance company?".

That 84 unit property by the way, 364,000.00 in excess expenses, un forseen un planned.

The economy is bad and should be bad for a little while as the past excesses are worked off but I think people in the U.S. are civilized (in most places) so we need not worry about fighting off our neighbors.

Can't get rich if you never have excess cash, can you?

Hemp can be used as a cheap alternative for clothing, paper, dye, jewelery, clean burning fossil fuel, and probably hundreds of other uses.

I only have 2 rental units, so my response probably doesn't carry much weight, but I'm in the 'keep more in reserve than you could ever possibly need".My reserve is in my personal accounts, my rental accounts have very little excess since I've not been at it that long.Regardless of where the funds are, if I don't have enough liquid assets to carry me for a year at the very minimum (business and personal) then I'm not fun to be around.I err on the overly cautious side.

Instead, he started with one thing, made it the dominant product in its market, found that he had excess cash flow that could not be reinvested back into the business at the same ROIs, and started deploying the cash into other potentially profitable businesses.

This deal, first time leads were getting an override, an acquisition fee, and a prop. mgmt. fees plus asset management fees  well in excess of LU standards.    

ConEd used to sell excess steam (byproduct) when it "bought out" the plants from NYC itself - it does not do so anymore, as far as I know - this was the cheapest heating option at the time and is still used in Europe extensively esp where it is cold!