The real estate syndicate is a pooling of resources of many investors to buy a building or long-term lease-hold. When you buy an interest or participation in a real estate syndicate, you buy a part of a building or the lease-hold.
The real estate syndicate with large public participation is about 10 years old. It sure is big business now. Forbes Magazine estimate that in 1958-1959 3 billion dollars worth of public participations in syndicates were sold.
There must be good reasons for this success and there are. Investors are promised and get substantial returns such as 10 percent, 12 percent or more per year, part of it tax sheltered. Good syndications offer a reasonable degree of security. Many investors have been rewarded with substantial income and even growth of their equity. But others have lost money.
Are you going to invest in a syndicate that will continue to make payments in 10 or 15 years from now and perhaps increase its payments? Or are you going to invest in a loser? The answer is simple: know what you buy. Our problem then is to get the facts on which to make a decision. Where and how do you get that information?
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