Crowdfunding makes real estate easily accessible, however, in regard to institutional/syndicated real estate investments, the advice of an expert who works in the industry every day, knows all the players and their track records, and performs due diligence on each offering is a great benefit to the client and comes at no extra cost. 

I buy a lot of short sales and We process them in my office as well but many times If We dont have control over the short sale process We would be seating for a long time waiting for the short sale processor to push the bank to get them approved.  

If your going to do assignments or sandwiches on someone else property you need to really ensure you're doing things right, otherwise you could easily have 2 parties (seller & buyer) suing you. 

Depending on the ARV realtor fees, title transfer, etc could EASILY wipe out your 15k profit you're hoping to make.

NO, but be advised these are easily HACKED so unless you're skilled and configuring WiFi,  caveat emptor.

(You should see some of the crap I get in the mail) MF investors typically aren't as easily found with their back against a wall.

The best part was that it sat on .48 acre and we cleared the empty lot next to it and it was up to the new homeowner what they wanted to do to it.It had some foundation issues that we easily fixed.

Make a couple more good buys and have the market keep chugging along and you will easily meet your goal well before 10 years. 

I guess if you are good at what you do, you are easily over booked.  

You can set up the LLC yourself easily, but the real trick to making it worth anything is to have your lawyer advise you on all you need to do to maintain the liability protection.