Kudos to all who participated I say we all should be proud 

Franklin yeah ,, it was killing me to not be able to participate in one of the greatest fire sales of my time..I wish I had started talking with other investors sooner - I'm sure that I could have bird dogged a lot of deals - but my mindset was on using my own funds and my own lender ( after all, that's all I had ever done previously) so I was limiting myself and didn't take advantage. 

If you want to "guarantee" that you acquire the property you can always participate in the auction and become the highest bidder so you can maintain ownership.

Few people have the ability to participate.

I'd like to ask you Don if you could shed more light on the ABCs of Crowdfunding and how we as Real Estate investors can participate.

It reads: “Also, very important, tell the feds that Mark Norris, owner of City Suburban Title is a knowing participant.

If everything is done right but your LLC still ends up getting sued, the other participants in the LLC can only loose their stake in the LLC but the managing partner can loose more.

Additionally, we have participated in two luxury flips, one in Ladera Ranch, CA on one in Fairfield Beach, CT.  

Of course, in a syndication the investor has a passive role because they do not participate in the day to day management, and invest only some capital.

In short, most of the investors are guys who have made a ton of great bets and investors assume their participation means something.As to the actual opportunity itself they are certainly overvalued for the time being based on what is there today but I would assume one thought investors have is that they will build up a list of ready buyers and cheap capital.