They are hands-off, institutional grade real estate investments, and they allow you the option to diversify.

., regarding syndications, if you are an accredited investor, you can buy into institutional grade $50-125M projects with as little as $100,000 and diversify.

My screening company checks all three credit reporting companies, plus national criminal background, and judgments/liens/eviction/broken leases.I have noticed that some property management companies in town charge a $250 "administrative fee" to new tenants.

Still has her name on a national major brand.If they can screw up that bad and still come back huge, I'm good.

Here are a few of the people I use.PM: Smart Asset ManagementFinancing: Tri City National Bank, Waterstone Bank

For the national companies -- Meridian seems to be the most investor friendly for our area.

.- A company representative informed me that there are no institutional, p/e or v/c firms as participating investors. 

You'l want a commercial loan on these.If you cant find anything in the local area then you may be able to qualify for a commercial loan through a national lender that does these on residential properties.

Essentially, institutional buyers and sellers of bulk REO properties and whole loan pools often overlook the complexities of re-titling and settling, or the handling of foreclosures on bulk transactions.

Is there anything you want me to tell the National Association of Realtors about short sales?