It's as Buffest warned, the greatest transfer of wealth in human history in action. 

I would caution on comparing these returns to the S&P 500.Real estate has been pretty much flat the last 2-3 years while the S&P has been on a great run.It's human nature to sell the lows and buy the tops.

Well....should you invest in a city where the people elected a woman with foreclosures, liens, judgements, garnishments, ethical violations from the state ethics board,  misused a city credit card, went three years arrears on her federal taxes all while yelling for other people to pay "  their fair share, " left skeletonized dead bodies hanging over Canal St for months on end covered only by a tarp until the wind blew it off to reveal to our horror her blatant disrespect for human dignity?

There are lots more that require a little bit of human interaction and a few more that need full involvement of a person - answering the phone, some AR and AP.

Appreciate all your feedback.The vast, vast majority of properties in Baltimore city, especially city properties cost more to rehab than they are worth, effectively totaling the properties, it’s great that you want to help fix up Baltimore but you’d be better spent working with habitat for humanity or something as opposed to flipping in Baltimore, especially in the cheapest areas.  

If I go the broker/dealers, they only talk about projects north of $10M.

I've got 3 doors so far, and really trying to figure out how I can grow quickly and leave the corporate world behind as soon as is humanly possible. 

Go work with Habitat for humanity building houses.  8.  

But there's more to it than real estate confidence.If you don't feel good about yourself as a person, as a human, you won't be at your best as a real estate investor.

There is no phone number where I can reach a human.