Full disclosure, I do participate in lending from my IRA, I am an employee of a self-directed IRA custodian.Adam

Great thread, I recently began to participate in crowdfunding, working with several platforms, also found a local based Cleveland, Ohio crowdfunding platform BRELION - so far so good.

I suggest our participate in any of the many REI MeetUps here in Austin.

Doesn't an active participation in RE allows you to reduce your taxable income produced from your rental loss including full depreciation dollar-by-dollar? 

If a property is to be owned by two or more eligible veterans, it may consist of four family units and one business unit, plus one additional unit for each veteran participating in the ownership.

My answer is an equity share with the homeowner and occupant with no change of title and no homeowner management participation.

They would disclose this to all interest participants.

The work shop is kind of gimmicky and they make you participate in clap chants and other cult like activities.  

Not kidding - I just participated in discussions at meetups, showed that I was progressing on my own by asking intelligent questions and building upon previous discussions, and offering opinions if I had an intelligent one to make.

It is a gorgeous gorgeous place here.Starting a working life in 1999 I was in the military working in disaster management; then a whitewater raft guide; then international aid worker; then writer; and then paramedic, all over a span of 13 years.Over that span of jobs but especially as a paramedic and before that as an aid worker in Sierra Leone I have seen everything in life without having actively participated in war.