Property Management Dashboard: Allows me to summarize delinquencies, notable expenses, upcoming lease expirations and rent bumps and send a monthly email automatically to the property manager for a status update.Everything I've found is either focused on the property management and rent collection or on managing investors.

Beware syndicators active on social media.

Quote from @JD Martin: I think it's a bigger problem now that we have social media.

Next day I sent a follow-up email to support inquiring about the status of this change request because at this point I had not had access to my account or funds for a week. 

We've had people frauding social security numbers!

Question is how can I apply pressure on the syndicator to update status and return my funds?

Which is not uncommon, what is uncommon is the number of inexperienced syndicator’s Who not only lost all the investors money, but some even fail to communicate the status of this indication. .To start, understand the type of deal you want to be in.

Do you know how to tell the difference between being a certificate holder and receiving additional insured status? 

I do understand real estate is not a " passive" investment and does take hands on work with regards to even managing a the property manager.My initial thought was/is (given my current status) that the optimal strategy would be to look into turnkey properties to get started and once I move back into the states get into/invest in more areas of real estate investing.  

Honestly seems like a little overkill on this decision - unless its strictly a rate-term refinance because rates have dropped, it usually just should come down to a side by side comparison of status quo vs. refinanced (+ how any cash-out capital is deployed)