If BiggerPockets has been beneficial to your real estate investing or to your business, please get in touch and hopefully we can feature you in our list of case studies.It is a great way to get yourself some exposure and to give back to BiggerPockets.We look forward to hearing from interested parties!

You pay through the nose for it, want to minimize your exposure, and know well in advance how you will get out.

At best this property would break-even.San Fransisco has an (overall) average rent-to-value ratio of about 0.4% -- far below what an investor can get in other markets with stronger economics and lower purchase prices.I think eventually you'd find a piece of property with a positive cash-flow, but the length of time you'd have to spend to sift through enough properties to find that "diamond in the rough" would make the effort questionable.Additionally, the very high land cost under those properties carries a high level of exposure and risk for any investor since the first thing to drop when the housing market turns and cycles down are land values.I hope to meet you one of these days Ben. :-)Continued success!

Frank, perhaps there are more things you can do to increase exposure (which others can help with).

That will certainly help get exposure to the industry.

A REIA gives you exposure to experts and most of your learning opportunities.I learned from a few folks I met at a REIA.Curt

With Loopnet I have used for years.You don't get the full exposure unless you do a premium listing or are a premium member.For the free with Loopnet only about 10% of their users see it.

I also list mine wholesale deals on the mls for more exposure.

Might provide for some good exposure and help move it faster.

First, i would start off my going to my RE attorney and asking this very question, getting legal questions answered specific to your state.Second, I have yet to see real wholesale deals on craig's list or any other public site. real deals go real fast and don't usually need such epic exposure, so I would question if any of these were deals at all.Lastly, having two middle men often turns a real deal into a no deal for the buyer.