@Roy Gottesdiener "ok" neighborhood is going to be subject and biased.

YES, we may be a little biased, but check out our blog here on BP comparing Detroit to other cities and Deep Dives on Metro Detroit cities & neighborhoods: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

IkeI am an extremely biased supporter of the Omaha market as most of my investments are in Omaha.

Some of us also append other data like demographics (age, gender, etc), phone, email or even social media profiles.While it certainly doesn't hurt to do SEO and cast your message in a bottle onto the sea of a billion websites, the VERY BEST THING about this business is that, thanks to public records, you can know the owner of every potential deal by name, and you can target them directly.

So there is bias, just like the vendors who post on these forums endorsing services they offer. 

YES, we may be a little biased, but check out our blog here on BP comparing Detroit to other cities and Deep Dives on Metro Detroit cities & neighborhoods: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

Very useful input @Scott Mac on the difference between 80 LPs @ $50k and 4 at @ $1MM.My bigger vision is to get to a place with back office overheads, internal cash flows, and technology that would allow passive ranch investing to be available for as low as $500/ea for retail, non accredited investors.That is the democratization aspect and the vision/values vs execution dilemma I face when testing at $50,000 vs $1,000,000.Due to the registration being much cheaper, I must go the route of accredited investors only, for now.My subjective, populist, nationalist, rural Montana beliefs deep down in my bones that still emotionally and personally influence my decision-making-bias is that what we have in Montana is 1-special, 2-should be shared without being too commercialized and gentrified, and 3-is quickly being lost.With ranches as we all know, and I fully accept, becoming only for the UHNW, part of my core-motivation and driving belief is that technology (online syndication) should present an opportunity in the marketplace to bring in more of the "Average American" to participate, appreciate, and benefit from this asset; not just for it's historical performance, but for its actual tangible benefits (the feels).Pride in ownership, sense of place, vesting/shared interest in ecology, community, and food production.First it must be an asset though, one that makes sense in someone's diversified portfolio.

Make sure as an investor you are not being biased in your decision making because you want these to be exceptionally good deals. 

Of course, I’m biased hahaThanks again. 

My advice to those starting out, which is obviously biased by my own experience, is to establish success and economic security outside of your real estate investments.