Direct ownership will likely outperform holding 1st position paper.

A good return is one that outperforms or at least performs as well as your other investments!

That actually means you outperform people who ride it out. 2.)

PEW Institute research has shown that the average return on investment for the senior housing/assisted living asset-class, substantially outperforms all others within the real estate sector.

Also, since it is an inefficient market, skilled individual operators can add value to allow you to outperform averages.Back to your very original question was whether Fundrise is recommended or not.

If the majority of the people get leads using craigslist or dmm, or.... then obviously that way is mediocre.A system that outperforms 90% of anything else out there and only 10% of the people are using it/crushing it.. that is obviously NOT mediocre.So why choose to be like everyone else and struggle?

I am there ready waiting when anyone needs to sell their house in CT on Google.So now that we have established beyond a doubt that SEO out performs FB 1000000% know thisFB is STILL absolutely beneficial of course.Get your website  set up, and drive traffic to your site using FB.Sure..Here is why it is still fantastic to do so.SEO gives you amazing high quality desperate leads for sure...

(before appreciation/ loan paydown).You should be able to outperform that in a appreciation market pretty easy, and blow that out of the water(Cash on Cash) in a cash flow market. 

On the other hand, I don't think I could outperform the 2009 to 2013 turnkey with today's BRRRR.

I still believe it's easy to match the growth of an index fund by buying RE at a fair value and easy to outperform indexes I'd you buy good deals!