My personal favorites so far are shows #6, 14, 37, 60, 61, 74, 152.

The podcast are my favorites.

I'll invest it in chunks in relatively stable performers (either an index fund or something which is essentially an index - BRKB is one of my favorites), but use different investment vehicles for each "chunk" so they are easy to track.  

One of my favorite lines to use is "In essence I'm like a property manager who works for free and pays your rent and by the way I'm going to buy your house with in a few years too" The most common response is "That sounds too good to be true."

hopefully some people with sage experience will chime in but I've purchased a number of HUDs and it was one of my favorite ways to buy.

Also I don't know if you have found the podcast on this site yet but they post a new one every week and have all 184 episodes available and at the end of the podcast every time they ask guests to give their favorite business book and favorite real estate book. 

It seems to be going along fine.RealtyShares is probably my least favorite of the platform among several I've invested on for two reasons: (1) they do not prefund their investments and (2) a long lag time from closing to first payment.Many platforms prefund their investments, meaning investors begin accruing interest the day they make the purchase, the day the platform receives their funds or shortly thereafter that date (ie. close to the actual purchase date).  

Because that can lead to allegations of favoritism, and biased or colluded results.If I were walking in your shoes, I would mention the prior report (but not  the company or person), question the comps that were cited, and the FMV being reported.You'll get a fresh look at the property and hopefully a better result.

If so, please let me know as I feel like Matt Damon in the movie 'Rounders' (one of my favorites by the way) when he was talking to his professor in the bar.  

I hope this helps, my favorite is 'Rich dad poor dad' it's more on investing than 'landlordism'.