TIAErich your best bet would be to amortize it over thirty with a 5 year balloon. the issue with private lenders  vs. banks is private lenders use their money to lend and many times it may not keep up with inflation - so lending for that long does not make sense.

I accidentally found an apartment on the internet buy the building next to me in my old neighborhood.

You don't see the CIO of an endowment putting their sponsors on blast for the entire internet to see (at least that I know of).  

Also remember the time these returns will take to amend along with the possibility of opening up audit periods/red flags with the IRS due to amendments.Doing this yourself on turbo tax likely won't be your best bet considering all of the details.

Crowdfunding is essentially old-school syndications that use newer regulations that allow them to market over the Internet. 

If they don't have one, I bet they know somebody.Answering your questions:1.

This seems like my best bet at the moment.

I am sure early on in your career you`ve made mistakes and trusted the wrong people/professionals, and I bet that didn't prove you a bad real estate professional.

Quote from @Andy Port: I'm currently looking to take some money out of traditional investments and begin investing directly into real estate as a passive investor on syndicated deals.The internet is pretty much copy-paste with advice on how to access real estate and defaults to saying "Just invest in a REIT - its the same" except you pay for the entire pool of existing properties (even if they have low yields in less opportunistic areas), the entire management team's multi-million dollar salary and their private jet, etc...

I wish we could nail the fake pump and dump due diligence PML that infect the internet in the same manner as this.