Winners can be found in every market and attraction to really high returns, but higher risk is a stretch most investors do not have to make today (IMO).Rich - Great points and what many investors young and old are realizing (i think) is that when investing in real estate, they can use a balanced approach and find quality properties where their investment is safe and the returns are well above other "traditional safe" investments and yet just enough risk to provide a good return.Ali - I call it shiny object syndrome.

It's kind if like the show Pawn Stars where sellers will come in and give all the reasons they want XX for the object.

BP community please help me out with some objectives I should have for the class.

My objective here was to educate the smaller scale investor/Landlords who are typically carrying LLP vs Commercial packages.

It's not the path with the highest probability of success.Understanding your objectives, choosing *A* strategy and remaining FOCUSED is a path with a much higher probability of success.I'm not a betting man, but if I were, those people telling you it's the wrong time to buy don't understand the first thing about markets - I call them armchair economists.

Court clerks are paid to archive public records, not provide lists to would-be marketers.If you wish to create your own list, your objective is to build a list of 20-200 by going to the courthouse and physically pulling files to build.

Taking a course so you can walk through the property and point out things yourself doesn't hold water -- home inspections give the buyer and seller a third party, objective and disinterested opinion about the physical condition of the property to fine-tune the deal.

Pro/cons of syndications (just my thoughts please comment about yours)Pro: very passive allowing you to focus on creating more income or other objectives such as going back to school/ fixed rate of return/ equity at time of sale/ % of initial investment back within a few years at refinance.

I took a course one time and they said to visualize it like a ladder, your first objective is to figure out what wrung the other person is on, and then move to that position on the ladder and then try to keep the conversation at that level.

You need to figure out your objective, your reasons,and then model what will get you there.