This is also my purpose for sharing the experience with the BP community and the internet community so that people are more informed.

The website 51west.properties also scores low on scam advisor ("owner is using a service to hide their identity, high number of suspicious websites on the server, registrar has a high % of spammers and fraud sites, website is (very) young, website appears to be hosted by a company with a bad reputation", all according to https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/51west.properties...)Trust your instincts. 

The idea is they want to add more long term rentals to the market to help with affordability.The mid-term market is interesting but then you are covering utilities, internet, etc.

I have read on the internet that some parts are and some parts aren't safe.

Finding information this way is often faster when necessary information couldn't be obtained directly through the internet.That's the old fashion way of doing things before the internet.  

Hi Sanjay,First, in case you don't know, crowdfunding deals are essentially the same as old-school syndicates ... except they are allowed to market on the Internet.1) There are hundreds of new syndicate deals that come out every year.

Kendall is an amazing internet personality & self promoter but not a land educator.

Why would you include internet in rent?

It doesn't make sense to partner with complete strangers on the internet that are mores likely to use your money and screw you over.

Signs of this are poor lease quality, maybe M2M tenants, high expenses (unnecessary things like high trash bills, internet, cleaning, security).