@Joel Owens  I find it ironic that we have the accredited investor rules for all the larger syndicators .. ( although risk profile of investing in rookie syndicator could be high as well :)  ).So the person with 50 to 75k of total savings would not be accepted unless they made 250k a year for the last 3 years and had a 1 mil net worth exclusive of their home..

I recommend looking at reviews as well, and if they're BBB accredited - then that's also a green flag.

As I was saying....Was really eager for this opportunity as I am not yet an accredited investor.

Given that I'm looking for a less time-intensive investment option for now and we are accredited investors, the Colonial note fund they offer is a better option for us.  

So in practice , accredited-investor-only investment has bigger risk/reward than public investment.First because public investment has its own transparency.

Personally, I think most of these funds are run by greedy, opportunistic individuals who capitalized on their own fame, a temporary dummy-proof market, and intoxication with their own "abilities" to vacuum up a bunch of largely unsuspecting dupes, accredited or not into funds that were always risky in that they needed everything to go exactly right (largely, the same way they had been going for the previous 10+ year, a historical anomaly) in order to make it work.

If you're accredited start researching potential syndicated deals- Some you can get in for as little as $50K; muitifamily, storage facilities, Residential Assisted Living..... 

Open to most types of RE including land/SFH/MF/Commercial RE as long as its mostly passive, and can meet most investment minimums/accredited investor.

I will add about ReaIT that you have to be an accredited investor to purchase those deals. 

Matthew, if you are an accredited investor, there are literally thousands of syndications and crowdfunding deals (which are essentially syndications that are allowed to market over the Internet) available.