The Big Three Types of Investors

The independent sponsor model is simply that the independent sponsor is acting sort of as a loan private equity shop. Usually the closest way to start are either friends and family, but a lot of folks don't have those networks. If you're buying a million dollar age back business in Greenville, South Carolina, it is actually kind of interesting to your classic local investor who might do real estate on different items. And they can potentially even help you in a way more than a national investor who can help you once you kind of get to scale.