To further along your growth, mentorships (which I would love to have) are offered but for someone like me who is still trying to build an emergency fund and does not have much capital, these prices are astronomical!

Especially if it is a single investment because you need 100 investors to achieve a reit status and most single investments do not.unless you plan on getting to $50M+ in raise and be open ended fund, reit probably doesn't make sense as the cost to manage it (accounting etc) is astronomical 

Think Europe and the astronomical prices of housing in most developed cities for a flat. 

Numbers seem astronomical out in the future but if you NPV them great, but not astronomical.  

It's called buy low n sell high, not buy high and pray for inhuman additional astronomical highs. 

For example, if you are in a secured position and invest $25k and can get 10% per year at $2500 or you can get 15% unsecured which is $3750, are people willing to risk the extra $1,250 a year where you could lose all of your $25,000 investment compared to being secured where chance of losing it all I would view as astronomically lower?

The problem is that the sheer volume of reported posts is astronomical and when people dispute you pulling their post, BP usually sides with them if it's even close so all the work moderators do can be undone.

Plus, since they can cut and paint to size, shipping costs is less, and they stock way less material on hand.Imported treated pine lumber is astronomical since their pines trees were wiped out by the pine beetle and they also don't have a coating/impregnation process for the raw timber.

I concur with you... prices are astronomically higher.

The fire risk is astronomical.