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Regardless of the platform, if you are considering direct real estate investment (versus a REIT), the most important thing you can do is educate yourself. Direct real estate investing can get very complicated very quickly: You have to potentially evaluate the sponsor/real estate company, the surrounding market, the assumptions being made that lead to the target returns, etc. Unfortunately, most "educational" material you find is really focused on the idea of "getting rich quick" versus real education. I'll shamelessly plug our podcast (https://www.realcrowd.com/blog/tags/podcast/). While we are a direct marketplace, we strive to make our educational material, including our podcast unbiased education and not a commercial for our platform. We have received a lot of great feedback.