It is essential that you figure out how to manage your income and expenses before you invest, not only because this is how you can save up the initial seed capital to invest but also because investing in real estate is nothing more than analyzing and managing income and expenses, only done over a long period of time (for buy and hold) and done on a larger scale with leverage.

[The mantra is: never spend your seed capital/assets!]

However, you have now planted a seed in their mind that the property may not be the price they are asking.

No active leaks noted yet but they may be a concern. there is an old inground pool that is a liablity but I would plan to rent a jackhammer, push the smashed concrete in, and fill the rest with dirt and throw some seed over the top.Broker did not have access to environmentals or appraisals because the bank bought the property back before foreclosure. broker seems to imply that the concerns are deffered maintenance and estimating capital requirements for roof and windows. broker also implies that seller will not accept less than $800k.cash flow is currently negative due to being poorly managed IMO. the budget includes items like $1,800 for telephone when a phone cost 25-30 per month. the bigger kicker is there is an option to either rent with no utilities included (at rental rates quoted above) or to pay an extra $100 for water and electric included (units have central HVAC included in electric).about 40 units have opted into this program giving a budgeted utility rebill income of around $4,000, the problem is that budgeted electric is over $4,000 and water is just over $4,000, and not only that but in September the electric bill was more than $8,000.

That said, crowdfunding may be a good way to raise sponsor capital, or the amount of equity outside investors require you to have in the deal to have "skin in the game".In summary, I believe crowdfunding is a game changer that will enable thousands of entrepreneurs to seed their ideas.

You contribute some seed money to the Roth portion, say $130.

I wish to wholesale flip a minimum of 3 properties over the next 120 days to gain seed money to buy a duplex that I can hack. 

I planted that seed a couple months ago but it took me putting a few more buyers in there before they took me up on it.

I have a college education in Computer Science which allowed me to generate some seed capital by working for a software company. 

But it's one small step in the right direction--one small seed of hope in the ashes of the housing and mortgage market in the 2nd half of 2022.