Real Estate Syndication, The Five Top Questions From Newbies

1. What's the difference between a "successfultechniques that Wall Street investment bankers
syndication" and a "successful syndicator"?Manyuse to make big money on their deals. I didn't
people put together a group of investors, or amake this material up. I've learned this material as
syndication, on a one-time basis. But very few area CPA at Price Waterhouse and in organizing
successful in doing this process repeatedly. Thethese deals with attorneys from firms across the
single biggest difference between putting togethercountry. These techniques are proven, they're
one deal and putting together a number of dealslegal, and they benefit the investors and the
is the way that you structure the deal with thesyndicator alike-which makes it a powerful win-win
investors so that they come back to yousituation.
repeatedly. Running a syndication business is a4. How do I get started in the world of real
business- it's not a one-time operation. Therefore,estate syndication? In order to get started, you
all of the revenue streams and all of the businessmust have background either in real estate or
techniques that apply to every kind of companysome form of finance. The syndication business is
also apply to a syndicator. They have to bea business that any sophisticated professional can
concerned about maximizing business operationslearn; but if you don't have background in either
so that profit can be maximized. It's not as simplereal estate or money, you'll have a hard time,
as making a one-time investment. Running it as abecause there's too much to learn in too short a
business means that you're going to have successperiod of time. If you have a strong background
in the short run and in the long run.in real estate and you're able to find deals, then
2. How do you keep smiling all the way to theyour job is to find partners who can work with
bank? The syndication business is a license to printyou on the finance side. The purpose of our
money. Because you're using other people'sseminar is to bring investors and real estate
money, you get enormous leverage in all of theprofessionals together so that powerful networks
activities you engage in. The syndicator iscan occur, and so that you can begin to put your
responsible for making critical decisions aboutdeals together immediately. We'll provide the deal
which property to purchase, how to carve up thestructure and we'll provide the information that
pie and how to make money for all the investorsyou need to be able to structure your relationship
and other parties involved. Because the syndicatorwith your investors.
is responsible for these important factors, the5. What are the best types of property to
syndicator is the one who takes the profits, andsyndicate? The concept of syndication, which is all
those profits, as I will show you in this program,about pooling funds for the purpose of acquiring
are enormous. There are many different waysassets, can be applied to many asset classes. It
that syndicators can make money, includingcan be applied to real estate, it can be applied to
brokerage fees, real estate acquisition andpersonal property and equipment, it can be applied
disposition, mortgage fees, property managementto plants, industrial plants, and other types of
fees, leasing fees, and maintenance companyvery heavy assets. For example, I am involved in
fees, as well as backend profits from the deal.the syndication of a heavy industrial plant, and I
There are many opportunities for a syndicator toknow other people who have syndicated airplanes,
make a great amount of money, provided thatyachts, and dramatic pieces of property. For
the syndicator handles it correctly and runs it as apurposes of real estate, any type of real estate
responsible business.can be syndicated-apartment buildings, commercial
3. How much do syndicators profit from settingshopping centers, raw land, and even individual
up these deals? The syndicators that I counselresidential homes. The only caveat is that
make anywhere from $25,000 on their very firstsufficient capital needs to be put aside to carry
deal to, in many cases, hundreds of thousands orthese properties; and with purchasing land, it's not
millions of dollars per transaction. The techniquesadvisable to encourage debt.
that I will show you in this program are