Crowdfund vs other options

[Cindy Gong]

recently I came across a few the crowdfunding platforms like fundrise, crowdstreet etc. they claim beating VNQ return for 3 years in the past 5.  with roughly avg 8-12%, it seems very appealing. I think it offers a lot more options for little fish like me, who thought you have to save and save and save....till the day you can invest...but still mama papa shop bearing all risk by myself.

aside from the fact that some of them would require being accredited investor, how people view this type of investment here? and how it compare to e.g. syndication that I heard a lot from this forums? (like risk, return, size of projects, level of liquidation?) 

assume ~$1.5-2M borrowing power, $400k liquidated assets as a scenario for the above comparison??