Protecting Your Investment: Vetting Syndicators & Operators the Right Way

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Trinity Herrera discusses how to vet syndicators and operators to protect your investment in real estate.

How to make sure a syndicator/operator cares about your money as an investor, what can you do to mitigate the risk of investing with a bad operator? Trinity (Trent) Herrera , commercial director and real estate consultant of Black Tie Real Estate, shares his knowledge. Read the entire episode here: https://tinyurl.com/mr4ces9c How can a passive investor know that a syndicator/operator cares about their money? We've all looked at deals that, at the surface, the sponsor looked great, and everything was above board, and the yield was what we wanted, and it was our appetite. And something happens. And to some degree, I think that you can never, 100%, insulate yourself from a bad egg, but there are signs. We have this term in the industry, commission breath, that's always a number one red flag. Someone with a servant mindset is not going to have commission breath at all. There's no sizzle in that industry of building generational wealth, the sizzle is, we're going to build generational wealth using math and fundamentals. But when there's too much sizzle, that's a red flag. The biggest single indicator is the math and the story, and the history track record. When you have a target of…

People in this episode

Host: Steffany Boldrini

Guest: Trinity (Trent) Herrera

Topics covered

• syndicators
• investing
• risk mitigation
• real estate
• financial literacy

Keywords

• syndicator
• operator
• investment
• risk
• real estate
• commission breath
• generational wealth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Black Tie Real Estate

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