For us its simple math, if we can sell it on the secondary market for 90 cents on the dollar, lets offer the borrower 5-10% discount to pay off the loan and we still win and the borrower also wins. 

But a 2 million dollar cabin should be generating about 200k a year in gross rent out there once its stabilized. 

Some folks might have far more retirement dollars than personal cash, thus more likely to lend from their retirement account.

A successful investor's time may be worth hundreds of dollars per hour.

Scammers are attracted to real estate for the larger dollar amounts, and the never-ending influx of newer people who are easier to defraud.

Yes, you could waive the right to terminate/renegotiate any inspection issues below a certain dollar threshold.2.

No dollar amount compares to how this program has changed me.

Quote from @Andy Port: I'm currently looking to take some money out of traditional investments and begin investing directly into real estate as a passive investor on syndicated deals.The internet is pretty much copy-paste with advice on how to access real estate and defaults to saying "Just invest in a REIT - its the same" except you pay for the entire pool of existing properties (even if they have low yields in less opportunistic areas), the entire management team's multi-million dollar salary and their private jet, etc...

I had another previous appraisal in the past from this company (Mike Bowden and associates, Spring Texas) there were sq footage inconsistencies as well as other inconsistencies about the subject property. he low balled the appraisal on a refi by apron 50,000 dollars!

This saves me tens of thousands of dollars a year.