The crowdfunding platform will thoroughly vet your proposal; only a small fraction of funding proposals are accepted. 

Our Puget sound RE prices are a small fraction of California's and they've discovered that opening a branch office, conducting everything online, gives them a way to hire good workers and let them enjoy a high quality of life for less than half the housing costs of CA.

He went after the houses that had bad foundation issues as the bank couldn't sell them to the regular rehabbers and flippers because they would get scared about the project.He made monster profit because he could fix for a fraction of what others would pay.One thing I didn't see mentioned is that when the house is jacked to repair the walls and ceilings along with other things can be put out of wack which is an additional cost to now fix back to normal.If buying from a bank flippers generally show ( high retail numbers) on the cost to repair which is much higher than what it will cost them to repair to get the bank to look at taking a lower offer.If the repair is substantial you might consider doing a joint venture with a foundation repair company and then split the profits.

A purpose involving a new, unique or speculative venture rather than a relatively risk-free ventureFurther, in general fractional interest sold are considered securities.  

@Ed Matson  modern day crowd funding is a mirror of how we used to HML in CA back in the day and still to this day.in CA you CAN fractionalize the beneficial interest in a Deed of Trust with up to 10 different owners.. without running afoul of securities laws in CA... its how we did all our loans ..I had 250 investors in those days.. and I would have some that wanted to spread their dough all over the place.. like they would have a million with me and not want anymore than 50k into one deal.

People are gambling on one of two things. 1) the property owner won't pay for that year and you then get to purchase the subsequent years effectively creating dollar cost averaging. 2) the property owner won't every pay and you get the property for a fraction of what it's worth.

I know it's credit and DTI based, butsome can offer slightly lower rates than others, and for larger loans, a fraction of a percentage could be significant savings per month.

I heard the fraction notes investors have very little control, due to broker has the original paperwork. 

Just look at the tech scene in raleigh north carolina, same pay, and a fraction of the cost of living.It will likely stay strong for a long time, it's not like any of the big tech names are going anywhere and I'm sure the state will do anything to keep them there.

Your mother and uncle would have fractional beneficial interest (ownership) of the trust in whatever percentage is desired.