But the most important component of any real estate syndication is inarguably vetting the sponsor and understanding the business plan and how your money will be used during the plan. 

If so, then you need to do a lot of market research and create a business plan, just like you would with any other business. 

Plan for a long-term buy and hold property.

I plan to keep it as a long term rental.

Get a strong pre-qual letter with an investor oriented and experienced lender (some of the best I've met on BP) and have a contingency plan.

In my Oregon market takes 60 to 120 days or more once you submitted plans..

This is not some theoretical plan.

One of them told me that if I close the loan directly into an LLC (which he confirmed they can do), then it won't affect my personal DTI ratio when I'm looking to qualify for future loans, specifically my next primary/house hack that I plan to buy at the end of next summer. 

Many other variables come into play with updating windows, my experience has been that the windows themselves are the easy part; it's the management and planning of all the layers around them that make the project easy or hard, cost effective or expensive, efficient or time consuming.

Hey Antionio,What's your plan/exit strategy?