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. 

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