I discovered BiggerPockets through the podcast and @JScott’s great books, both of which I have enjoyed immensely.I have to pause my introduction here to thank these guys:The podcast has filled a void in my curiosity that business and investing books never could.

The City can come out at any time and pursue the violations against the owner, even if the owner just took title, and are likely to do so if they discover or are informed by a nosy neighbor that the property changed hands of has activity going on there.

The fact that it's called "crowdfunding" is simply because they are gathering investments from multiple individuals as opposed to 1-2 separate institutional investors.  

why don't you spend less than a thousand dollars and get your RE license that is a career you can spend a lifetime at and if your any good you will make good to big money and for the rest of your life... wholesaling has a very short shelf life and is as you discovered much much tougher than one might think.  

Relationships can still matter at these institutions and I've found it worthwhile to build strong ones with key people.

Had you bought the house to later discover a material defect in the home, you have every right to sue him, even a year later.

Then I 'discovered' the US market this year and bought a single family rental there, have been looking into multi-units instead of more singles.

This of course would be an advantage to me if I were still paying cash for houses, but I've since discovered the benefits of using leverage, as such, any pull back in prices will hurt my net worth temporarily.

As you will discover, there is a large group of investors in Lincoln.

Did you have to "figure out" what you are going to do once you discovered your mistake?