Most of my knowledge about REITs comes from my background in financial services.  

If you want to look at Owner Occupied Seniors, there are 8,558 (age 60-89, 20+ year ownership, high equity, home value up to $300,000, single family)Of these, 2065 have low Financial Stability Scores.Message me with your email address if you want to see the full reports.

If I am helping to partially financing them but bring on other investors that support my plan/idea (I don't know if they will be partners or purely financial backers), does that make me essentially a developer?

And then he told me I am not entitled to the financial records and he can answer any questions I have.

My goal this year is to buy just one property and then see how that goes for about a year and then each following year purchase 2/year until I reach my financial goals.

You probably can download one or get a financial calculator.

It is just not part of the return on your financial investment.

I believe Wings Financial FCU has best rate and term. 

I know that this is the next big step in becoming financially independent. 

LOTS Of fake lenders work BP  face book linkdin etc.if you cant find anything on them I suspect you may have run into a fake.the telling clue will be1. rates too good to really be true or lower than industry norm2. too quick to approve you..3. they want a modest deposit up front and give some BS reason why the want it.4. no website ( although many fraudsters have generic websites website alone does not mean anything.5. check on licensing.. there are only about 12 states that require licesnes. not sure about our state thoughBut I would say 95% if you cant find anything on them.. and any of the things I said above are what they are telling you,, cheap rates small up front deposit.. probably not real and you will just lose your 500.00 bucks or whateverOh the other great one is you have to buy an insurance policy because your new or a little weak on the financial side.. there are NO insurance policies for private loans if you fail to pay.. that's just another fraudulent payment to a non exisitant entity.real estate lending has become the new Nigerian prince scam..