Investing
As 2024 comes to a close, is now a good time to invest in syndications?
Is now a good time to put money to work in real estate syndications as 2024 fades into 2025, after a few rough years?
Syndications
Database
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Choosing
The number one trait in a syndicator: trustworthiness
There is one most essential element in a syndicator: trust. You can't do without it given the nature and size of syndication investments and the structure of the LP/GP relationship.
2023
How is our portfolio looking going into the year 2023?
Our portfolio of syndication investments currently includes assets in which we invested over the past four years. During that period, we have steadily invested in what we perceive to be high-quality assets with operators that we believe have a good track record, good values, communicate well, and generally are aligned
Bank Accounts
Does it make sense to have a separate bank account for one's syndication investments?
Another good reader question from our mail bag: how about bank accounts? Put another way, does it make sense to keep one's syndication investments separate from one's other finances? This is one with that old annoying answer of "it depends." One answer: for our
Cashflow
Patience and the Syndication Portfolio
You can't expect your syndication investments to work out exactly as the people promoting the deal tell you they will. You shouldn't expect it and may well be setting yourself up for disappointment if you do. In our experience, it makes sense to assume that the
Capital Call
Keeping it real: a capital call hits the inbox
If you have been reading this blog, you'll know that we have actively invested in dozens of real estate syndications. Our investments are mostly in multifamily apartment complexes but we have exposure to a few other asset classes as well, including self-storage, hotels, office, and parking. Our portfolio
eCourse
Launching our first eCourse
At Syndirater, we've had a number of people ask "how can I get started in syndication investing?" We've enjoyed having first conversations with prospective limited partners and offering our ideas about how to get started. And that got us thinking... what kinds of offerings
Entitles
What kind of entity should we use to invest in syndications?
We've got a pile of reader comments that we've been meaning to get to with blog posts. We got one about whether someone should consider "opening an LLC for this kind of investment." (Time for the usual boring reminder: we are not your lawyers.
Kevin Bupp
Book Review: "The Cash Flow Investor"
A fresh look at syndication investing from Kevin Bupp with an emphasis on mobile home park syndications.
Syndication
What could go wrong in a syndication investment?
There are some really appealing things about investing in a syndication. As eager syndicators (or sponsors or operators or deal promoters etc.) will tell you over and over, you get to invest passively in an appealing asset class, you don't have to do much work, you get a
Book Review
Book Review: "The Hands-Off Investor"
If you were to ask, "What's the one recent book I should read about investing in real estate syndications to get the basics before I start?," the list of possibilities would definitely include Brian Burke's The Hands-Off Investor: An Insider's Guide to