@Jason Greenway You should take a look at my company website, iFunding - we crowdfund real estate projects by allowing accredited investors to co-invest as little as $5,000 and participate in real estate offerings.

Welcome to the BP family, you can certainly fill in the gaps by participating in the forums.

And, of course, some renters in $300K homes trash nice homes too-- it's just less likely from what I've seen than in $30K homes as the $300K renter has a job and is more easily garnishable.I would not buy in that sort of poor neighborhoods, especially not to start, nor would I participate in section 8.

If someone else gets the value/benefit, there will be no incentive to participate.

Thanks for the advise. definitely want to participate the BP meetups and get some insight into Austin market.

Taking an active role in participating in the forum discussions made a big difference in my growth as an investor.So are you looking to doing a flip?

Your spouse doesn't have to know about it or participate in the process.Whether or not he WILL find out depends on how good his divorce attorney and personal investigators are.Rick

I still participate in these auctions from time to time.Rick

I think we have to determine this before we can attempt to understand the new concept of "Institutional Crowdfunding".It sounds like Institutional Crowdfunding of Loans is just a new name for the same old players but may now include Hedge Fund Operators that have made themselves "accredited" and without "accreditation" you can not participate in buying into your slice of the Institutional Lending Pie?

I would like to add and piggy back on comment by @Jean Bolger that if Account Closed is looking to create income stream that she could use now, they Participant Loan options of the Solo 401(k) need to be investigated.Amanda, since you own a small business, you could qualify for the Solo K and then take personal loan from it, the funds then can be used for a down-payment on the property that you would personally own.