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.

More specifically, they are most likely not trying to get institutional money, sophisticated investors in the $500k+ range, family offices and the like. 

No risk would be keeping the money in your pocket and walking away because gambling is a pretty bad idea in the first place (I work in casinos, so don't tell my boss I said that). 

Time will tell.What I look for in a syndicator: length of operation, # of completed similar syndications, in this market a more sophisticated value add than rehabbing units and improving management, preferred equity positions.  

He appeals to the (and I mean this in the nicest way possible) less sophisticated investor.