Sorry that this happened but this is all to common in our industry...lenders not properly showing fees to make it seem attractive.

The way I see it hard money is for new investors if they are serious about getting into the industry.

@Aaron Mercer If you use their software, you can take a iPad or tablet (or even smartphone) with you to the property, then go room to room touching the area of the tablet that corresponds to what you want to rehab.  

Further, my manager and my company and my industry all sucked.  

It's a "Premiums only" industry...

I work in the door to door sales industry selling pest control.

Even if I did not make it a career change I figure I could use the extra income and industry knowledge to help with investing. 

If you work in a service industry or are hourly wages, you want to be more on the 12 month range since you also have higher wage volatility. 

StartEngine.com can take 7% plus you have costs in doing a raise so actually, money cost is closer to 14% too rich for a Real Estate syndication deal. for our Tech industry these are one-time valuation costs and with Tech valuation can grow by 10x as revenues increase valuations.

As you mentioned, if anything the information I will learn will be valuable regardless, which I can appreciate as my day job correlates with the industry.