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Do regional centers make any profit off the investments?

Do regional centers make a profit for every project that they complete? If so, do they make profit off a fixed percentage or is there a flat rate for every completed project?

Answers

• Reza Rahbaran

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on March 5, 2014

  Yes, regional centers are for-profit entities. The amount of profit varies from project to project.

• Shahzad Q Qadri

  RC Creator

  Answered on January 31, 2014

  Successful regional centers do. How they make the profit varies from project to project.

• A Olusanjo Omoniyi

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on January 14, 2014

  No, there is no guarantee that regional centers (RCs) will always make a profit on every project they complete. Although, the goal of an RC for each project is to make profit, the reality is that regional centers do not make profit on every project. Be on notice that an EB-5 investment is considered at risk investment. Also, there is no standard rate of profit; whether fixed percentage or flat rate. What each RC pays as profit depends on the terms of operating agreement per project.

• Lynne Feldman

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on January 13, 2014

  Every deal is different and absolutely some regional centers do make a profit; others do not, just like in the real investment world.

• Fredrick W Voigtmann

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on January 9, 2014

  Yes; regional centers are for-profit commercial enterprises. The way they make money and the amount of profit they receive depends upon the project and upon many different variables.

• Vaughan de Kirby

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on January 8, 2014

  The purpose of a regional center is to generate a profit. What form that profit takes varies.

• Salvatore Picataggio

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on January 8, 2014

  It depends, of course. For projects using a regional center and loan model, for example, the lender of the foreign investment funds would receive interest on the loaned amount loaned to the job creating entity. This will be set by the lender or regional center based on a variety of factors.

• Jinhee Wilde

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on January 8, 2014

  Of course, they do. There is no reason for so many people to want to create regional centers if they do not make profit. In all cases, the regional center or its owner is the general partner of the limited partnership of which the investors are part of. As the general manager/partner, they get some administrative fees as well as part of the profit or revenue. Their revenue or profit will depend on the structure of the deal they make to do the project. If it is a loan-based, they get a fixed percentage that is above what they need to pay you as the investor. If equity, they own part of the project and derive revenue from the sale or revenue stream of the projects. I have not seen a success fee or commission like compensation for completing the project, although I have not seen all the documents out there and there are so many different RCs.

• Ed Beshara

  Immigration Attorney

  Answered on January 8, 2014

  An experienced EB-5 attorney who is setting up regional centers and the associated projects will be able to advise on the details of regional centers receiving income and profits. Every EB-5 Regional Center has its own legal business and financial infrastructures which will generate different income and profits.