like some have already noted in this thread, this and other real estate crowdfunding concepts are limited to involving only accredited investors. there can be ways to get around this, i think. what if the organization is a non-profit educational / community improvement corp, and people participate as designers and as investors (truly a crowd/swarm of investors, where there are MANY MANY individuals giving very small amounts of money) and the money is given for "rewards" - like getting to stay for a night in one of the rooms for free after the, say, hotel! is finished being built. .. so that at least some of the investment capital -if not all of it - is coming in because people want to participate in building long lasting high value structures. this would be attractive to architects and designers and the general interested public more than as a way to make a killing in real estate - it would not be about that.