There are plenty of other legitimate lenders available.After this post I found they had an address in San Francisco that had a bank website that was identical with all the errors.

@Daniel Sunday if you purchase your first property, out of state, without an experienced agent who knows the neighborhood, gentrification trends, and rents, you are going to lose 98 percent of the time.The more I review, the more I see the error.

You could read 100 books and still not know enough because certain things must be learned through trial and error.

Unfortunately, builders and contractors make mistakes all the time through human error, cutting corners, or hiring the wrong subcontractors for the job.

Apparently it was a few times in escrow, but fell through because of "agent errors" like being too late with signatures or so.

I would not venture into the apartment space, learning by trial and error.

If you just listen to the 1000+ podcasts of the 'real estate', 'money' and 'rookie' you would have a good base of knowledge. 

We add the 12 year's borrowed money return with compounding total will be $129235,  Add  $161355 cash value, the total will be $290590.You know for $100k , 10% rate compounding 12 years will get $313843, higher that your $290590.Conclusion: in the above example,  WL will never catch the other investment because WL only compounding at 9.6%, below the 10% of the other investment.BTW, you know 9.6% compounding 12 years is  $300418,  because the $290590 may have rounding error when I do the rough calculation. 

I know other resources like the Real Estate Rookie and the Bigger Pockets podcast have episodes on this. 

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