Launching Real Estate Syndications - Ep 12 - Getting Investors to Commit to Your Syndication
Tilden Moschetti: Okay, so now
you have your syndication put
together, you've got your PPM
your operating agreement, the
subscription escrows underway,
you've marketed the investment
and have those conversations.
You've pitched it. And now you
have some interest. So what
next? How do you get the money
from the investor who's
interested into into the bank
accounts so that it can be ready
to close? In this module, we are
going to show you how to do that
step by step. And we call that
latching investors. So latching
them into your syndication.
All right, so let's talk about
latching your investors to
syndication. Now, in this
discussion, I'm going to assume
that you are doing a 506c, the
only difference between a 506c
and a 506b is a 506b doesn't
have the third party
verification of accredited
investors. And so it's a little
more, there's a few more steps
with five or six seats. So
that's why we're going to use
that as our model. So let's go
ahead and switch to our
whiteboard. All right, so what
is the first step? So we have an
investor who has now said to you
that they are in it for $200k.
So investors interested in
investing $200,000. With you,
this could either be a soft
commit or a firm commit, I would
probably it depends how you want
to categorize it. I like to
categorize this as a soft
commit. Because I've gotten just
sort of a verbal word, we
haven't gone through the
accreditation process. I don't
like firm commits, until it's
much more like we're setting up
getting ready to wire that
money. What amount I should put
on the subscription agreement.
So I like that being the firm
commitment. Your mileage may
vary. So to me, this is a soft
commit, I'm in it for $200,000
The next step is to get them
accredited.
Now, we do this with AWS, we
discussed almost always it's
it's a smart move a third party
verifier. We do that through a
third party verifier. So what
they will have at the end of the
day is someone else's taking
their own independent objective
view of this person and decide
whether or not they believe it's
a, they are an accredited
investor. So if it ever becomes
an issue of well, did you do
your due diligence on your
investor to see if their third
party use it can say yes, I have
I used a third party, which is
what will matter. So they're
going to look at them in one of
four different mechanisms. So
they are going to let's just
move this
they are going to look at them
under the income test. So
they're going to see Do they
have the right amount of income?
$200,000 of income, or $300,000?
If it's joint, if it's the
husband and wife doing it? Do
they have the ink? Do they meet
the income requirements? Or do
they meet the net worth
requirements? Is that $1 million
of net worth? Is that what they
have not counting their house or
primary residence except are not
counting any of asset of it,
except if it's underwater, then
we have negative equity. We've
discussed that before. So do
they have the net worth that
meets that? Or do they have this
is the way I like to do it
because it's the easiest. So I
like to make sure that they know
that they can do this almost any
third party verifier will let
them do this a letter from a
professional. Now that's to be a
professional with knowledge
about their financial situation.
So we're talking their tax
accountant, their CPA, their
lawyer, their money manager,
things like that somebody who
has actual knowledge of whether
or not eight would be a third ay
ay, ay, accredited investor or
number four. And because of new
legislation, do they have a
securities license
which is now allowed to qualify
people to be a credit investor.
So under one of those four
things, hopefully one of those
is true. If it is true, the
third party will come back and
they will issue a certificate.
Normally, these certificates are
only good for like 90 days. So
you want to do it, you know,
within a reasonable timeframe of
taking their money
right. So they issue a
certificate, now you have a real
accredited investor. So, the
next step after that is now it
is time to go to the
subscription agreement. Now
you've already prepared it. And
they should have already told
you whether or not they their
attorney has reviewed it, or
however they want to review
should review it before you go
through the accreditation stage.
So now, there's this the the
subscription agreement, alright,
so they, they review it, they
sign it. And now they the next
step is very simple. They sign
it first, the subscription
agreement first. Now they wire
you the money to your bank.
And, and now the money's there
you verify it's there. And then
you send them, you sign the
subscription agreement. saying
you've verified that it's there.
All is good. Now let's talk real
quick about, about whether it's
your bank or an escrow, this is
up to you, I haven't found a
need in deals that I've done to
have investors wire money into
an escrow account in order not
just they just send it to me,
you may find that it in some
areas, it may just be easier to
give that money to an escrow
company and have them hold on to
it. I haven't found that to be
an issue. But I have a good
reputation and the people who
invest with me they either have
known me or they come in by
referral or something they're
not strangers so they know who I
am. So I haven't had that
problem before. I also have a
license so I have a lot to lose
if I was to do anything bad. So,
but you may find that it's
easier or it's more marketable
to not have them put it into
your bank account, but have them
send it to an escrow that is for
you know, really whatever you
think is going to work the best.
So, that is how we do those next
steps. So, in the next module,
we are going to walk through
those very last steps of now
taking that money and closing
the escrow and those things that
still need to get done in order
to to finish off this part of
the the syndication, the whole
launching of the syndication and
then basically move it into
orbit and that will that will be
after this next module.