Jeremy: It depends on how sophisticated a buyer you find.

It is ironic but true that it's often easier getting a larger deal done than a small one due to the sophistication of the parties involved.

I have been watching and researching Hubzu for many months and what I found is that Hubzu has a sophisticated calculation to determine reserve and opening bid based on prior bids, BPO as well as a WAG.Also each property has a local agent/broker associated with it and it looks like the agent/broker can over-ride any number presented by Hubzu.What I do is determine a fair price (ARV) for the property.

We are set up under the RegD 506(b) exemption which allows for unlimited accredited investors and up to 35 sophisticated.

If you're not an Accredited Investor, you may want to ask the syndicators you're interested in working with if they accept Sophisticated Investors. 

If you want to add “bells and whistles” you can link other services like mail chimp.I now use realnex, it’s twice as expensive but much more sophisticated for commercial offerings, email marketing and team cooperation.

When I was working for a fortune 200 company selling very sophisticated computers to Hanford, Boeing and the military I had a co-worker who was a reserve Marine officer.

At one point I owned about 30 to 40 units, my name had gotten around in the Rochester, NY area as a very astute professional so I got approached by other investors in the area and we had the opportunity to buy more sophisticated properties. 

A few of the more sophisticated municipalities will take payment by wire transfer, but most will not.

Look at all the so called sophisticated investors who lost their money to Bernie Madoff.You and I are similar in that we can tell when people are masking their true intentions but there is no one on earth that does something without seeking something in return.