I actually sold a Class C a few months ago - I saw the writing on the wall after one Class C, very likely no capital gains after all my passive losses.

The shelters and foster networks are incredibly overrun, and I want to be responsible and not hand them off to random or possibly cruel strangers.

Think it is the concrete walls top, sides and bottom. 

Laundry room wall painted black is odd.

Misled by gurus on YouTube hyping how people JUST LIKE THEM with no capital, experience or real estate education, can join his mentorship and make these incredibly profitable deals.  

While I know that even prestigious Wall Street funds have gone belly up, my learning in all of this (same with ATM Fund with Prestige/Daryl Heller, is as follows:1.

I believe it is a larger issue than what we define as the economy, which is mostly measured in corporate profits and Wall Street performance, this is not what the average person perceives.

See the attached maps of his/his related entity real estate investments (courtesy of The Wall Street Journal). 

It would be incredible if I can meet someone who can coach me through my first deal... some sort of a mentor. 

I know many agents have been coached to use a scare tactic that in theory a seller could refuse to pay any buyer commission, but that is an incredibly remote possibility.