Whitney Elkins-Hunt is a real estate investor and director of investor education. She started investing in real estate in 2002 and has since built a portfolio of over 700 million in real estate assets. She is a partner in a group syndication which is a newer term for a real estate investment. This type of investment is a publicly traded security where the group of investors pool their money together to buy an asset. The asset is then managed by a group of operators. The time frame for this type of investment is usually 3-5 years.