Honest question here for the veterans -

What are the key benefits of funding on your own rather than just syndicating and leaving all the admin work up to the funding partner?
If you're not giving up too much to get it done, to me I think it'd be worth it to just syndicate. Are there not so obvious things I'm overlooking besides ego?

Appreciate the input I've been around this space a few 24hours but when it comes to syndication - the moving parts of it are still a foreign concept. Why not be a super ISO and syndicate a bunch of deals, which are on your own paper, which are being underwritten by somebody else's staff, and risk analysis being presented to you to decide if its right for your investors or not?

Direct Lending seems to present the issue of higher overhead and not that much higher reward - Do I have this all messed up?

Appreciate the input