Market timing is akin to gambling IMO.Make good fundamental choices and over the long term you will turn out to be right more than you are wrong.

PM me for my offshore account info

Come up with your marketing requirements and hand it off to an offshore virtual assistant.Don't know what I am talking about?

I know I could theoretically force appreciation through basic value-add improvements, but I'm just scared that theirs a ceiling on those neighborhoods and if I take the gamble with 15k in rehab, that it will never appraise at 100k.

I try not to gamble with my investment money or my clients investments and can usually identify a good deal in a very short period of time.

It's a 50 cent gamble so it's worth trying.

Total one hundred % scam    BP parabas is a French bank.. your money goes off shore and say good bydeal with someone local that you can verify through title company as a known lender.

At least the last half decade has proven this to play out.. compared to cash flow were hey we are going to do this and gambling that rents go up and that cap rates stay low and credit will be where it is today and then in 5 to 7 years if everything aligns we exit.the pros on those of course is tax treatment and income as you hold and pretty much every syndicator out there will take a 100k investment. 

99% of those you find on line saying they are private lenders are private off shore scammers.. your money is gone.

You lower your own equity investment and thus you:- Increase your IRR- Lower your own personal risk if the project goes southIt's easy to make money when you're gambling with other people's money.