You can buy for capital appreciation(which is a gamble), buy for cash flow, buy a REIT and play real estate like the stock market.  

(he was an inherited tenant and part of the reason I got the building so cheap)https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tenant-hell-leaves-poo-smeared-17202910https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5315883/Is-VILE-tenant-Buckets-excrement-found.htmlI can't find it now, but the worst one for me was where it was pretty obvious there was some kind of child abuse going on, the one room the kid was in was almost worse than those pictures with locks on the outside of the door to lock the kid in. 

So now, at this point, you are pretty much gambling on your flip if you use anything else except SW.

The key is to participate as much as you can.I'm interested to learn more about your crowd-funding activities in the UK...what type and scale of projects were involved?

well when you put it that way, makes it seem like I'm gambling, hahaha. 

Gamble you'll need to consider.

Dont want to gamble it and I intend to access it at 10k downs for low end properties.

Marty Makery of Johns Hopkins.I saw below YT vid, and you are right, I am worried that US is so woefully unprepared...thanks to gov't inaction & slow response...so many old folks are going to die prematurely...and so many young families are going to lose jobs...ugh...it's very important to elect capable prez...and look at what's happening in UK, it's even funnier than US response.https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Even if there's a small chance of getting caught, I'm not going to risk 18 months in the clink plus big fines and having my loan called plus ruining my creditworthiness just for a lower rate personally, but I'm not a gambling man. 

You hopefully won't lose much in that gamble but that is what all tax liens are, a gamble.