There may be competition, but the cream ALWAYS rises to the top.

Columbus Real Estate and Money, CREAM, is also a great group.

The platforms do a great job with investor education and you have a chance to dig into each deal (even if you don't invest) to see how they evaluate the various investments.Only the cream of the crop (experienced sponsor, reserves, background checks, etc) make it onto the platform so you benefit from their due diligence in addition to your own.Regarding accredited only - it's not that they don't want your money, trust me.

(like I'm driving away eating all that before the ice cream melts!)  

I struck gold on my first shot, His answer was there is a house, it really isn't really run down but it has been vacant for well over a year in the next block, it is the  cream colored one in the middle of the block.

But because you pay based on the loan balance (not because The Joker is sitting behind the scenes selling you poison shaving cream) your first payment includes $618 worth of interest and slowly decreases from there.

It is fair to say that these months do not seem to bring out the cream of the tenant crop.

Chances they aren't the cream of the crop of people in terms of the grand scheme of things, which means they have no money.  

I didn't have the cash available that seemed required to make it more feasible and I got the sense the cream was going to be taken from any deals that passed through his business. 

I hear Ice cream cures emotional distress quickly.