Step into a situation where there is evidence that its citizens might not be getting treated fairly by powerful institutions.

The best institutional neighbor you can have is a church, half a day on Sunday, a couple evening services and an occasional whatever.

I will also add that private loan investors or non-institutional loan investors are very much exposed to this pricing in the market and there is not two sets of pricing out there.  

- wages start to increase, squeezing employers, and increasing prices - after a long cycle of easing credit and fierce competition among financial institutions for lending business, and consumers & investors stretching themselves more, credit terms start to tighten again - the Federal Reserve increases interest rates, increasing the cost of borrowing - usually, oil/energy prices increase with increased US & global consumption, increasing costs across industries- consumers got used to the wind at their back and got used to it.

@Teresa F.I agree Teresa....right now it's difficult to get a 30 day closing in Texas with institutionally financed buyers and the new rules will extend the closing times from between 45 to 75 days. 

In this period, institutional investors have bought up half a million homes in targeted markets.

My interests are in real estate finance, mortgage note investing, tax liens/deeds, and buy/hold MFR for cash flow.My initial direction is to pursue private equity or other institutional investing in an acquisitions role, or possibly asset management.

I took the 40 hour course with the Michigan Institute of Real Estate.  

Watch the market drop 10% and then: 1.) people think it will drop *another* 10% and 2.) even institutional investors get skittish about “catching a falling knife”.

I've paid all mine off and will never borrow commercial money from an institution again, personally.