Cash Flow vs. Appreciation: Understanding Reg D Syndication Investor Types
There are two kinds of investors
in the world. And how you put
your founder investment theory
together is going to be geared
towards one or the other. We are
going to talk about investors
who are interested in primarily
cashflow, and talk about
investors who are primarily
interested in appreciation.
One of the components of your
founder investment theory, that
theory of yours that you're
putting behind your investments
and portraying it as a story to
your investors or your potential
investors, one of those
components is how it's suitable
for them. See you there are
different kinds of investors out
there, there are investors who
are really primarily interested
in cash flow, when you have
interest, you have investors
that are primarily interested in
appreciation. So let's talk
about cash flow investors first.
Now, cash flow investors, as the
name implies, are those
investors who are really
interested in a monthly or
quarterly check in the mail
mailbox money as it were, they
are they tend to be a group that
either is relying on that income
to be coming in at a regular
interval, or they're relying on
it, because they plan on
siphoning it off to other
investments over a period of
time. So they're, they're going
to be doing taking this pool of
money, and then just keep
compounding it into other
investments, rather than your
specific investment, right. So
they may be getting that check
in the mail, depositing it, and
then putting it towards this
other syndication or this other
stock or this bond, or whatever
it is. So those tend to be your
cash flow investors. Now, in
general, and this is extremely
broad, so don't take it with a
grain of salt. And it's also not
investment advice. For anybody
who is listening to this video
who is looking for investment
advice. This isn't investment
advice. So that cash flow
investor tends to be your
retired person because they
don't have a steady income
coming in. So they don't aren't
rely. So they are relying on
that cash flow that's coming in.
Now, the other kind of investor
that is out there is the cat
investor who is primarily
looking for appreciation, so
they don't want to check now,
you may ask yourself, why don't
they want to check every month
or every quarter? Well, the big
reason is taxes. So they will be
people who probably have a good
paycheck and get, you know, get
paid regularly and aren't
relying on your investment for
that big for those that that
regular payment, what they are
looking for is sort of like
someplace to just keep putting
money away, where that will just
grow for them. And then they
don't have to pay taxes on it
while it's in the investment. So
a good example is a team of
doctors goes in invest into a an
office building. And then they
aren't really looking for any
kind of appreciation whatsoever.
They're looking just for Okay,
in the end of 15 years, or
whatever period, we're going to
sell this property and we're
going to enjoy all the profits
of it. Now, they are two totally
separate tracks. I personally I
fall into the appreciation
track, I make good money, I have
a regular, I earn regularly, I
don't need to be paying taxes on
my on a yearly thing, I'd much
rather be putting that money
away and watch it grow, right
and watch it and I have a
transaction that's turns into a
sale. And then suddenly now I've
got a nice bit of appreciation.
So if I'm not paying also, I'm
not paying at that regular tax
rate, I'm paying at that capital
gains rate, not the annual rate,
which is much higher. So that is
a basic picture of what those
two different types are. Now
there certainly is people and a
large number of people who want
both, and they exist in there
out there. The point of this
video really is not to say one
or the other or that your deal
should be one or the other
because they're all different.
Every deal is unique. It has its
unique fingerprints. But what is
critical for you to do is to
identify what kind of investment
it is because depending on what
it is, it's going to change how
you talk to your investors. If
it's a cash flowing investment,
you need to have that
conversation with them, or
they're going to turn off
instantly if they're an
appreciation person, and maybe
that's okay, because if all
they're looking for is just to
prove situation and cashflow
deal probably isn't right for
them, or vice versa for the
appreciation person, but the
person who really needs the
regular regular money coming in.
My name is Tilden Moschetti. I
am a syndication attorney with
the Moschetti Syndication Law
Group. Now what we do as we help
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