How Passive Investing Changed My Life
Wednesday, October 08
This guest blog is contributed by Jeremy Roll, a professional real estate investor who serves as an advisor to Realty Mogul.I have been a cash flow investor since 2002 and it has changed my life in many ways. Not only did cash flow enable me to leave the corporate world in 2007 but, perhaps more...
Foreign Investors and Real Estate Crowdfunding
Monday, October 06
Crowdfunding can be an attractive vehicle by which foreign nationals (non-U.S. citizens or residents) can invest in U.S. real estate. It is often helpful when such foreign investors form a U.S. entity (like a corporation); reporting requirements for the crowdfunding company are simplified, and t...
Foreclosure Processes -- State Differences
Thursday, October 02
Foreclosure processes vary greatly from state to state, and should be considered in deciding whether to invest in loans in a particular state. The differences depend primarily on whether the state uses mortgages or deeds of trust for the purchase of real property (although the terms are often us...
Investment “Yield” – the IRR calculation
Tuesday, March 04
The simple “cash-on-cash” return figure uses a property’s cash flow numbers to give a simple look at the desirability of an investment. In addition to not taking into account any appreciation of a property, however, it also doesn’t incorporate a key second element in measuring return on inves...
Cash-on-Cash Return
Tuesday, February 25
Passive investors in crowdfunded real estate transactions may not be familiar with some of the various ways that return on investment can be calculated in the real estate world. Here we explore one of the most common measures, the “cash-on-cash” return. Cash-on-cash (sometimes called the ...
The Fundamentals of Crowdfunding for Real Estate
Saturday, February 22
Real estate “crowdfunding” is, at its core, just another way of pooling money together from a group of investors in order to make an investment. The difference now is that the ease of communications made possible by the internet has increased the potential reach of such pools so that they can...