For those of you who have actually participated in these types of projects, what sort of feedback can you provide?

Due to my limited experience in real estate investing, I regret that I must start as more of a taker than a giver on these forums, but I certainly look forward to the opportunity to participate in any way I can.

The purpose of this thread is to actually GAIN information about what the market (as known by PB participants) thinks of this particular investment.

It is institution/corp/pool/REIT driven (large entities with cash).

I'd say the entire system needs to be overhauled and very strict guidelines be instituted backed with the means to trace every gun and enforce what laws remain.

But this is due to a market participant slowing and ultimately ending their acquisition process, not due to the liquidation of an asset class that just saw its bubble burst.

I work in institutional fixed income sales (new to that) and have been seeing some whole loans so I wanted to learn a bit a about whole loan sales.

A source of seasonal tenants.Banks and mortgage institutions, look at the street rate for what the are doing, they usually post current rates.

For example being a landlord does not necessarily involved work every day such as what you do at a 9-5 job.One of the reasons capital losses are limited to the amount you can deduct is because those are a specific type of passive loss.Passive losses from business activities such as real estate investments or investments in partnerships or corporations can be limited based upon the the amount invested, your income level and your participation.

When you get to a management company with a broker, an agent's participation may be limited, depends on state laws as to the adminstrative nature of assisting a broker might be.