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MFREE 106 Trailer # 4 with Brandon Rickman: Is It Possible to Invest in Syndications Without Going All In?

Shelon Hutchinson Season 3 Episode 106

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Think you have to quit your job to start investing? Not even close.

In this episode, we break down how full-time professionals are tapping into syndications—like our $14M self-storage deal—with as little as $50K. 

Even if you're not swinging hammers or chasing deals, your capital can still be working overtime. 🧠📈

💡 We also talk about how savvy investors are pairing hard money leverage with syndication investing. Borrow 90–95% on a flip, then deploy your own cash into passive opportunities that aim to double your return in 3–5 years.

It’s not about choosing one lane. It’s about stacking smart plays.

 ✅ Steady job

 ✅ Solid income

 ✅ Strategic capital deployment

That’s how you move from working for income… to letting income work for you.

#SmartInvesting #PassiveReturns #WealthWithPurpose

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Brandon Rickman:

Whether if you're employed, if you have a, a normal nine to five job and you have some good income, yeah. You can obviously take that income and save, like you're talking about, to invest. In our particular syndication with our self storage facility we have a minimum investment of$50,000. So you can get involved even though it's a$14 million project. Part of that is a bank loan and part of it's syndication, but you can invest so. if you're an accredited investor and you have a good paying job, you've saved up some money, you can use that money to invest in a larger syndication. And we're seeing, 1.8 to 2.1. ROI on that money over the course, like you said, it's usually a three to five year. Hold time, but you know, it's people, usually coming close to doubling that return. Obviously each deal is different. So I think that's one strategy for people who have a full-time job. And then obviously for other investors or people who are becoming full-time investors, You can utilize a couple of different strategies. One being hard money lending, to where you're borrowing 80 to 90. We have some hard money lenders who loan up to 95%. Of the purchase and or rehab of a property. And so instead of me having to put a hundred percent of the money in, um, to do the work, let's say I've got a$100,000 on the side or a$200,000 on the side, um, I can get a, a hard money loan and only put 5% or 10% down and then take some of that cash that I've got sitting on the side and invested in another syndication or two syndications or three syndications.