Brookfield’s new fund, for example, purchased the two-thirds stake in mall giant GGP Inc. that Brookfield didn’t already own.Brookfield’s scale enables it to get returns “you simply can’t get if you’re an individual investor buying an individual mall,” said Brian Kingston, chief executive of Brookfield’s real-estate arm.Blackstone’s global co-head of real estate, Kenneth Caplan, who declined to comment on the fundraising, said markets are fickle and whether or not there are opportunities to buy “can change pretty quickly.”Some funds are setting less ambitious fundraising targets.

@Mike ReynoldsThe closest I ever came to winning like that with the Borg (Big Orange Retail Giant) was the Home Depot Seeds program, where they sent me stuff every month and I wrote reviews for it under the reviewer name "BuyerBeware22" and I got to keep the stuff.

Armed with that information and confidence, a person really feels like a world of opportunity opens up that was just not able to be seen before.

I'm not able to focus on one route.

There are also a variety of hotel conference rooms that can typically be affordable, some not so much, depending on space and amenity needs.This link may be able to help: http://www.drewslair.com/2014/10/questions-to-ask-...I also think it may be well worth it to also hold a separate, web conference meet up, each month for those who are not able to make it to the meetings.If there is anything that I can do to help contribute to making this happen, please let me know.

This can be applied to your single family home or the "big guys" giant multifamily properties.  

Unfortunately, my mom is not able to co-sign a loan for me, so I am alone here. 

@Burt Gourley - we don't own our properties free and clear, so I am not able to borrow against them just yet - so no comments there!

@Todd BradyIm not able to post it on the "event" section cause i'm not a PRO member..

So I am not able to put down the exact number of hours that people spend on this.Cheers,Tim