In general the equity deals will be better returns then debt given the higher risks.RS has two different equity deal types:- pref equity- equity Pref equity usually has higher annualized returns but once that is met you don't get to participate in any upside.For equity there's a preferred rate but it's lower then what you'll see in a pref equity deal but after you pass the pref rate you still get to participate in any upside.This is detailed in the waterfall under the financial tab.RealtyShares does charge a fee to manage the funds so you will find higher returns on direct sponsorship models platforms like CrowdStreet and RealCrowd.

Slow drip could turn into a waterfall once the snow really starts to melt.. 

Can someone please help calm my brain down here.

Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties.

I think BP offers such great resource for newbies, helping calm the fears of getting started by watching others do it.  

I'm not at all interested in buying a bad deal, just to get a deal - I'd rather buy more residential multifamily before I do that, and just wait for the market to calm down. 

What i know about the deal doesn't calm me.

Because he wasn't "management" he didn't have a dog in the fight, and looked at things calmly and objectively.You might consider a lease purchase (check NC laws), or the owner financing, or the assumption (FHA, USDA, VA, Etc.).

He actually calmed me down.

He calmly drove back to his company office 25 miles away .Meanwhile I had sent him an email the night before, asking if he even had one call or inquiry yet from a tenant prospect??