How Stock-Backed Loans Can Fund Your Next Real Estate Deal
Thursday, August 06
If you're a real estate investor sitting on a stock portfolio, you might be overlooking one of the fastest ways to fund your next deal. Most investors think their only options for raising capital are selling stock, taking out a HELOC, or bringing in a partner. There's a fourth option that a lot o...
Crypto Backed Loans: Borrow Against Your Coins Without Selling
Thursday, August 06
If you're holding a meaningful crypto position, you've probably run into the same problem a lot of real estate investors know well: you have real value sitting on the books, but turning it into usable cash usually means giving something up. With crypto, that something is usually your upside and a...
The $11 Trillion Equity Gap: Why Investors Should Care
Wednesday, August 05
There is $11 trillion in home equity sitting untapped across the country right now, and homeowners are withdrawing just 0.41% of it per quarter. For investors, that is not just an interesting stat. It is a massive pool of underused capital, and understanding it can open doors most people are igno...
Why Some HELOCs Close in Days While Others Take Weeks
Wednesday, August 05
If you've ever applied for a home equity line of credit through a traditional bank, you already know the drill. You ask how long it'll take and you hear the same answer everywhere: two to six weeks. Most investors just accept that as the cost of tapping their equity. But that timeline isn't rando...
Securities Financing: Fund Deals Without Selling Your Stock
Tuesday, August 04
If you're a real estate investor sitting on a stock or crypto portfolio, you've probably run into this problem before. You need capital for your next deal, but your two obvious options both come with a cost. Sell the stock and you trigger a taxable event and give up all future upside on that posi...
The Buy, Borrow, Die Method: Getting Cash Without a Taxable Event
Tuesday, August 04
A lot of investors have appreciated stock or crypto sitting in their portfolio and only see one way to turn it into usable cash, sell it. The problem is that selling triggers a capital gain right away, and once you sell, you're out of the position for good. If that asset doubles again next year, ...