Someone wants to promote their services and then tries to belittle a strategy because they favor an other.

Yeah, shameless self promotion moment…Start with 2-3 acres and put a few quads or garden apartments on it.

Many participating agencies provide promotional material such as window stickers and signs you can display.Security cameras don't completely prevent crime.

I can certainly see where @Chris Seveney and @Carlos Ptriawan are coming from with vesting skin in the game and alignment of interest.From what I understand of other online syndications of alternative assets, it's fee heavy and little alignment.What I am hearing is that I should market the 2% hurt money, revenue-share annual management fee, and IRR hurdle rate with 80/20 carried interest better as that is a unique-differentiator from the other pay-for-play platforms.Not that I am proud to promote this as I wouldn't want to be considered a "discount manager," but the fees are low, both real and relative, and especially low given the asset at hand; 5% placement, roughly 75bps annual (given the revenue share estimates) and then performance at waterfall.I do not anticipate this being a long-term solution though; only entry for the first launch of beta.

Put another way, a developer that mostly promotes the deal based on returns being higher than non-dev deals, but yet not near high enough to account for all the additional risks involved, can trigger an alert flag for some.

I highly recommend that if you are an accredited investor that you go there and check it out (Ian won’t self-promote but I will do so on his behalf!).

*I'm not promoting my services here just answering your question. 

I can't self-promote on here, but if you tag me with specific questions, I'd be happy to provide the most helpful answers I can, each time.

I have a car payment of 558 and my annual salary is about 48,000. i just got promoted so i should be making an extra 500 bucks a month by the end of the year. i have about 5,000 saved in a high yield savings account. 

These funds would likely be reinvested into a self-storage/mobile home park fund.As a side note, I am also in the process of getting a HELOC on my primary where I could likely get about $65K-$70K (promotion w $0 closing costs, variable rate right now at 3.50%).