Hi, Was offered an opportunity to invest as a Limited Partner in a syndication and I'm looking for a SEC attorney in NJ who could advise me on the PPM offered.If anyone has used someone in the past and can recommend, it would be greatly appreciated.Sincerely, Manuel 

I wish there was some secret but to be able to get the property entitled you need $$$ and I have yet to find a bank or lender that will lend for entitlement work (city approval, all necessary studies, etc...), what I would do is find the property. 

I'm from the area and I've been slowly trying to build my buy and hold empire using conventional lending. 

@Brett Rhine The only obstacle I see to conventional lending is having less than 2 years in your current position. 

Does anyone know of a lender that will lend on a condominium portfolio in Georgia in the low $1 million price range?

I know the SBA told me (for my personal home) that they would lend 125,000 for damages and 38,000 for contents at 1.75% with a 30 year term. 

Does anyone know of any good lenders within Michigan which are able to lend on apartment buildings?

My lender was Stearns Lending.

It's important to figure out what your business strategy is, and what your value-add proposition is.I know that folks have been successful in each one of these niches in Philly real estate, just depends on what you are looking to do (in no particular order and just off the top of my head, I'm sure that I'm leaving a bunch out): low-income rentals, luxury rentals, flips, vacant land speculation, new construction, section 8/PHA rentals, wholesaling, wholetailing, bird dogging, turn key sales, property management, construction management, financing expert, zoning expert, title expert, business procedure consulting, hard money lending, seller financing, buying subject-to, syndicating deals, 1031 exchange scout, retail sales, etc.Personally, I've set up a pretty decent rental portfolio over the last few years, that's what made sense for my investing goals and setup. 

I work in the lending industry and I will tell you the most successful agents I know spend more time networking than anything else really.