I'm intrigued by actually running the syndication myself assuming I can build out systems and a team that allow me to operate it on "auto-pilot" as much as I can, but as you stated, I was not aware if other strategies have surfaced since I last looked into investing or whether syndication was still a viable option.

One day I plan on operating in a similar fashion in providing a seamless experience with quality products.

These include falsely claiming to have closed dozens of deals when none were ever closed, illegal payment of undisclosed sales commissions to bundlers and independent contractors, advertising the funds as safe and appropriate to investors with obvious near-term needs for their capital, creating fund of funds en masse assembly line fashion with no corresponding SEC filings, unregistered brokers/financial advisors acting in that capacity absent licensure, having customers wire money claim the fund is fully subscribed and putting them into a high yield promissory note, accepting funds from unaccredited investors, misrepresentations about the debt put on the project, lies about experience level of the principals, omissions of material facts, and at least two straight up Ponzi schemes.While it's true that some legitimate operators are having issues in their portfolios, today's circumstances are a perfect example of the idiom, "you can only discover who is swimming naked when the tide goes out."

Looking to purchase an income producing ag property, farm and pasture land, that also has a massive gravel production site, over 20 acres of it (approximately 400,000 tons). My approval odds aren't great, I'm a first ...

Unfortunately I think this only scratches the surface of your problems.

But for real estate exposure, one should stick with old fashion methods (e.g., house-hacking, buying small MF etc.)

Kitchen fashions change so much that you want to wait and see what's going at that time. 

., which would not work, since we don't have the wall or a flat surface in the location that we would want to install it at.Option 3: https://www.mailcase.com/about/ , which could also work if I purchase the spreader bar.Questions:1.

Trying to get an institution to reply and comment in a timely fashion is comical.

I talked to a GC and ADU in general are fairly expensive to deploy these day even for a flat surface in the backyard.