In fact, I'm actually a great team player.

Crowdfunding makes real estate easily accessible, however, if you're an accredited investor and want to go down the hands-off institutional real estate route, the advice of an expert who works in the industry every day, knows all the players and their track records, and performs due diligence on each offering is a great benefit to you and comes to you at no cost.

They are one of the big players in the hard money space.

Show up and see who the players are and offer your assistance.  

As to the future sale, I don't know your local market or the players, you may have someone interested in taking both types.

When you look up the original mortgage you can see if there is a MIN# on the top right and if so go to the MERS number look up web site https://www.mers-servicerid.org/sis/Here is Fannie Mae:http://www.fanniemae.com/loanlookup/Freddie Mac:https://ww3.freddiemac.com/corporate/Knowing your players up front can help you avoid timely and costly delays or failure to close.

Find out who the big players who are doing similar stuff in your area by talking with Realtors.

What you need on your team are knowlegable/passionate players.

One of the things I am concerned is the fact that they only use airbnb data, i'd like to be able to compare with all the big players as well.

If you attempt to duplicate, step by step, what another player did, you'll lose because no game is identical to another game.You need to understand why real estate is unique, why it is valuable, how it is valued, why no two parcels are the same, what effects value that can be changed to profit from, why different regions have different market conditions, what the requirements must be to establish market value, how title effects value and how does title transfer, how government plays on real property requirements that effect value, and the list goes on.Yes, you'll learn terms, legal terms, like encroachment, easement, plat and survey, property descriptions, market value and what must be present to establish a market value, what a single family dwelling is (many here don't even know what that is, yet they try to deal in them), you'll learn what property rights are and how certain rights are conveyed, what may cloud title or encumber title, what a lien is and types of liens as well as their priority, what responsibilities there are with ownership.....and the list goes on.You really need to know what is and isn't legal or ethical in dealing in real property as opposed to personal property.