If you are new to real estate investing, you may have heard several reasons why it is the preserve of just a few wealthy individuals and institutional investors, and if you are an old investor, you know that these are true! Real estate is capital intensive and you need hard money to participate. That you need to know a great deal about properties to understand how it works. Indeed real estate can lock up your capital for a long time, you have to be patient enough to recover your investment. Structuring real estate finance can be complex and difficult to understand. Property transactions and laws how many wished they had not got involved!