In todays environment, if you are seeking a syndication that is offering 18% the risk profile for that investment must be off the charts.

My passion for real estate is off the charts.

You can split hairs all you want whether its a "business," but what you are doing doesn't raise itself to being an active income source. 

@Mark Gliebe, Imagine the chart as a one gigantic titanic ship with 24 floors and you are seeing a glimpse of a iceberg in Seattle (first MSA city to be in the red).

I use excel for a lot of things, but to image having to look at a list of 200 and try to manually sift through it to find the correct criteria for a property would have me pulling out the little hair I have left.

Go to the HUD site to find the pricing chart for your area. 

I find this kind of info gathering particularly helpful in charting a path forward and as such I appreciate your involvement. 

I'd only heard about home hair dye that women use in the shower.Is that hair dye or shoe polish?

Three main areas; I removed three walls and replaced with proper lvl's and support post's according to IRC and AWC tables and charts, turned a 2nd floor attic into liveable master bathroom & walk-in closet and expanded the adjacent room for a bigger master bedroom, and got rid of a bedroom floor above the family room to turn family room into 2-story ceiling height.

I think it is easily overcome by a good attitude and hard work.when I started in 74 in the game  tatoos were only on sailors.. the talk was should you have any facial hair. and studies said facial hair would be a turn off to some folks.