Great views, great locations, water features, great cell or internet (big deal), electric/water, upgrade with fruit trees and ponds, huge trees, garbage dumps you can build a different road around, etc.  

First to back up a second, syndication deals are basically the old-school version of crowdfunding deals (with the main difference that crowdfunding deals are allowed to be marketed on the Internet).And you can find syndication/crowdfunding deals that are set up as DSTs.

It has surprised me how many people will come to a forum to ask strangers on the internet legal questions, rather than pay for an hour with an attorney.

Spent months watching and absorbing knowledge of BP and several other internet personalities.

My background is owning an internet marketing company for 20 years, so I have a bit of a leg up for sure. 

If you had put that $100,000 into any local real estate of your own do you have any idea the type of gains you'd have over four years.Do not send your money to investment promoters of any kind that you learn about in podcasts, on the internet, social media, etc.

I am a "techie" and I am targeting other "techie" clientele - i.e. people who need a quiet place to work remotely (with great internet speed) or who are in the beginning of their IT/desk-professional-job career and need an affordable furnished place for a few months/years.

10 minutes at a local bar, restaurant, or coffee shop asking questions to locals will be more valuable than 100 hours of internet research.

If you have the time though, you can learn all of this on Bigger Pockets and on the internet. 

The internet doesn't know everything.