If you are looking for a full-time property manager I'd highly recommend @Matt Maurice or if you looking to self manage you should definitely check out the cool platform under my signature - NestEgg.Also, I saw @Kenneth Garrett mentioned @Joe Mueller, who you should also connect with. 

Syndication deals is all about marketing and nothing in a pitch deck tells you if its a good deal.New investors don't have a shot telling if its legit or not without a network around them.

I threw my property up on the platform and within a week was booked solid for nearly 3 months.

@Karen Higgins I built my system using Podio as a platform.

A few red flags to watch out for would be:- Asking for a large loan application fee or other fees upfront  - Unusually low interest rates for a hard money/private lender (real hard money/private lenders aren’t loaning money at 4-5% but fake ones usually advertise those rates)- Email communications with really bad English/grammar indicating the sender might be from out of the country- Claiming they loan nationwide in all 50 states (most non-bank, hard money/private lenders operate in only certain states and don’t lend nationwide)- Claiming they can do loans from $5,000 to $50 million (most lenders that will loan you $5,000 can’t do a loan for $50 million, and most lenders that can do a loan for $50 million aren’t going to bother doing a loan for $5,000)- Offering to send you a photo of their drivers license (fake lenders tend do this to convince you they’re legit but I guarantee you it’s not their license they’re showing you and a real lender would never do this)- Not caring about your qualifications or the merits of the deal (basically willing to “approve” you no matter what you bring to them since they know they’ll never actually fund it)- Terms that seem just way too good to be trueThat’s just a few things to watch out for.

There were a few items he mentioned that gave me SOME hope that it was legit, but there was also a lot of holes he didn't seem to know. 

an online platform isn't going to do it and a realtor isn't going to do it either without being way over priced and overrated.   

Don't worry about the 'brand' name, it's just a platform to operate on, no different than Realtors.... the Keller Williams or Long and Foster is irrelevant, what matters is that Realtor.

We're speaking with the neighbors to see if they would be interested in selling so we can expand our project, but we know the number of units each parcel add to the project, and what the max acquisition cost will if we were to buy them out.You should be able to pull up the sale data of the property from a platform like Zillow to see what they paid for the land, and gauge where you want to come in for your negotiation. 

First you need to confirm if you'll qualify on crowdfunding platforms.