Purchase price: $690,000 Cash invested: $172,500 Took a gamble on a larger single family home in an up and coming master planned community.

There is a gamble there that the second appraisal comes in at or below the first.

Looking for high equity growth areas is a bit of a gamble.

No, I've not invested with SCDC, and it's not likely I will without evidence they can do / have done what they've claimed on their web site.

There are a lot of great resources here and around the web for people looking to invest in Birmingham.

I wonder if there is a way to web scrape for when a new realtor is hired or passed exams in the area so that I could hit them up immediately.  

At any rate it is possible, but depending on your appraisal it could be a gamble

Is the portal a downloaded application or is it a web portal?

:Syndication multi-family investments are riskier and have less upside than gambling in Las Vegas.

this is only a good idea if you have reason to believe that the area will be appreciating quickly, which is called speculation and akin to gambling not investing. me personally, I would rather put my money on black than bank on market appreciation. negative cash flow rentals are a time suck and money suck.