Depends somewhat as to whether or not you are an accredited investor.  

Most will not let you invest now because you don't meet the accredited investor requirement, but the flood gates will open to non-accredited investors soon.  

(This site is not really an education site, it is a social interaction between those with common interests, what might be "learned" is not a formal, accredited or legitimate education, what the forums and blogs offer are simply opinions.)Not competing to the length of Dion's post, I'll get to the point.

It's extremely difficult to set up a legal peer to peer consumer site which targets both accredited and nonaccredited investors, due to all the regulations (see the other 50 pages of regulation summary in the above). 

Kind of like the "accredited investor" Bryan Hancock writes about.I think Ben Leybovich had it correct.

In short, they will only sell to accredited investors (definition below) and will only show you investments once you have verified that fact and I believe after a cooling off period.  

Rung,If you are accredited, jump from SFR turnkey to looking at apartment syndication and join as a limited partner.

The Kansas City School District has lost their accreditation twice due to low test scores on state examinations, first in 2000 and then again in 2011.

Often, the syndicator has already purchased, or at leans controls the asset and once the capital is raised ownership transfer is seamless.Most sophisticated and accredited investors will only consider investing with a syndicator who possesses a verifiable track record.

But first, the answer is different depending on a lot of things and the biggest is whether you are an accredited investor or nonaccredited.