It's unclear to me if your 'ask' is more about buying in (equity stake) in the project or gaining experience.Would be helpful if you can opine.Even if you have desire/ANY experience, I bet you'd be able to help with development. 

And seriously, sometimes there are truths that I'd just as soon nobody knew about, and you can bet I won't be volunteering that information -- anymore --As to the original question, as originally posed -- you're still better off being completely frank.

Web scraping and $200 for the right resource and I bet you'd have something automated.Or, take the hour and go through a zillow etc on your own. 

I bet with the right motivation this would be a day project and you wouldn't have to worry about it anymore....

I'm pretty comfortable taking risk and I would never bet money I wasn't okay with losing, but I'm trying to discern what the least risky option is based off my resources. 

Id bet any buildings with 5 or more units where the property owner  is a person.. not a n llc... 

Complete title report is the best bet or like Chris mentioned have the foreclosure lawyer share that info with you which so far I have no luck with in Nj.

did not read it .. but debt instruments in your IRA tend to be a better fit than owning the asset.from a practical standpoint were folks can get in a bind is they don't leave enough reserves in their SIDRA to handle cap ex or tenant trashing of a unit.. and find themselves with not enough money in the SidRA to rectify.Plus the other thing is you wasting your ability to depreciate the asset.. notes don't depreciate.. so there fore notes are generally a better safer fit.. as long as your buying quality notes.. 

For anyone still interested, your best bet here is to find property that's in walking distance or a short drive to the campus.

Your best bet for selling is definitely with it being listed in the local mls.