Vern,  I am in complete agreement with you about why there can't be a place on the web (Connected Investors is too busy promoting their in-house lending company Lending Tree, to be willing to provide a forum for this type of thing.

One of my favorite ways is by going to your local plumbing/electrical/building materials supply houses and speaking with the counter person(s). 

It is an EXTREMELY high risk investment in an investment promoter.

I have a property that's a good material for flip…but I would like to find out if the demo court is really tough to work with.

I currently work for a luxury building materials company and my commute is about an hour and a half each way every day.

This is in order to keep up with inflation and increasing taxes, insurance, utilities, cost of materials and labor for repairs, appliances etc. everything has gotten more expensive. 

Or if you are using the home as a short-term rental, you could try to qualify as "materially participating" and use the short-term rental loophole. 

Buy and hold in one of the A class areas in Baltimore, if you are going to do Baltimore, it’s the only part of the city that has growing population, and rehabs are extremely tough right now especially with no experience, I’m doing one right now on the eastern shore, basically cosmetic, was built in 1994, systems, plumbing etc in good shape, labor is even less than Baltimore, gc-ing myself, still running me 70k, materials are insane right 3bd 1ba, mid tier Lowe’s stuff (I’m even putting in a shower insert, no title) is running over 30k.

An entire workshop of tools as well as building materials.

Its hard to promote your fund leading off with your loss's and these funds can hardly be compared to Buffet .