The book should have been dedicated to me and all the other beginning investors.

Your work is to be commended, and I am very impressed with your dedication to make this site better.

I'm CEO of a company that is in the process of launching a social lending platform for foreclosures - similar to Prosper.com and LendingClub.com except for real estate.

It sure is nice to have a dedicated beer fridge!

This new platform ismuch more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.

I've read good and bad things about lower income rentals (there is a whole thread dedicated to that topic right now) and that barrier to entry fits my current risk tolerance.

If so, then 5K to 10K is plenty to be able to choose from most of the major hard money loan platforms.  

I dont get the turnkey concept because numbers never works. you are paying almost market value or sometime more than market value. you want to build the equity as a real estate investor.If you really want to invest passively than REIT or online platform makes more sense.I have analyzed and still analyzed tunkey property but none of them makes any sense to me.Originally posted by @Chinmay J.

I stepped away from my corporate job in the beginning to dedicate myself to real estate investing and while it was a rough ride at first, it is has definitely paid off ten fold!

While this was a value add for us as we focused on the logistics of our cross country move, if you have the time to dedicate to a listing, I believe that's the way to go!