Real Estate Crowdfunding

Real Estate Crowdfunding: An Insider’s Guide to Investing Online introduces the reader to basic real estate investment concepts and then takes a deep dive into how to invest passively yet wisely in real estate syndications. This book will teach the reader how to: • invest in crowdfunded real estate syndicates • understand key financial concepts used in the industry • diversify their investment portfolios • read between the lines of investment contracts • maximize profit while minimizing losses This book is a guide to the foundational financial concepts upon which all real estate projects are based and explains the language of real estate from an insider’s perspective. It provides a road map of what to watch for and how to win at the game of passive real estate investing.

I've watched the emergence and quick rise of real estate crowdfunding and I have to tell you, I've been dying to write this book. So many of my readers have reached out with questions about this growing new industry. Whether you are an investors, real estate developer, or entrepreneur, this new sector is a game changer. My name's Salvador Briggman and I've been blogging about crowdfunding since 2012. On my main website, CrowdCrux.com, I bring awareness to crowdfunding success stories and demystify this alternative financial tool. I'm lucky enough to have impacted over 1 million website visitors in the past year and have been cited by the New York Times, Wallstreet Journal, and more. In this ebook, my co-author Krystine Therriault and I bring tremendous clarity to real estate crowdfunding. We break down everything you need to know to get started raising money for a new property or investing in real estate online. Along with answering many of your questions, our biggest hope is that this comprehensive guide will get you pointed you in the right direction. We want you to succeed in this changing industry. If you enjoy this ebook, please take a second to leave a review on Amazon. Now...it's time to get ready to dive into the world of real estate crowdfunding!

Investing in Real Estate Private Equity is your practical guide to investing in real estate through private offerings with established companies. The passive investment strategies for wealth building and income generation described in this book have traditionally been used by some of the world's most sophisticated institutional investors, but are now available to nearly everyone thanks to recent regulatory changes. This handbook will guide you through the process of building your own diversified real estate portfolio by identifying and making investments with established and experienced private real estate operators. This is NOT another get-rich-quick real estate fix & flip scheme. You will NOT be encouraged to sign up for conferences or clubs to learn a no-money-down investment strategy. This IS a practical guide meant to help you avoid common mistakes and navigate more skillfully through an often byzantine industry. You will learn:- What a private real estate investment is; the mechanics of syndicates, funds, and crowdfunding- Fundamentals of basic real estate evaluation- How to evaluate operators and investments- Fees, incentives, and other loads- Common terms and structures- Strategies to evaluate and manage risk- How to create and execute a personalized investment strategyMost people underestimate the time requirements, complexity, risk, and general brain damage involved with buying real estate directly. Thankfully, private real estate investments provide most of the same benefits as direct ownership, while taking advantage of established real estate companies' years of experience, market knowledge, industry reputation, negotiating leverage, and expertise. Even better, they allow investors to diversify their investment allocation across a range of real estate product types (multifamily, retail, office, self-storage, etc.) and throughout the capital stack (equity, debt, mezzanine, and preferred equity), all while working with specialists in each strategy.Written by an experienced practitioner with over $1 billion in transactional experience, this book challenges conventional wisdom and provides an inside look into how the industry actually works. Using the practical tips and strategies found here, you can build your own unique real estate portfolio, manage risk, avoid common mistakes, hopefully make money, and perhaps even have some fun along the way.

Smaller companies are abundant in the business realm and outnumber large companies by a wide margin. To maintain a competitive edge against other businesses, companies must ensure the most effective strategies and procedures are in place. This is particularly critical in smaller business environments that have fewer resources. Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the strategies and concepts that will assist small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve competitiveness. It also explores the latest advances and developments for creating a system of shared values and beliefs in small business environments. Highlighting a range of topics such as entrepreneurship, innovative behavior, and organizational sustainability, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business managers, executives, managing directors, academicians, business professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students.

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Great financing is the holy grail of real estate--with the power to make or break the deal. Learn how to get the money you need for the property you need. Whether you are brokering your first deal or your fiftieth, finding the right financing for that specific situation can be the most important challenge you face. However, you can find nearly unlimited supplies of funding for all your real estate deals if you know where to look The Inside Guide to Funding Real Estate Investments introduces you to the range of options available--from traditional mortgages and asset-based loans to crowdfunding and private money--and provides an inside look into the loan process as a whole and how lenders think through different scenarios. Learn all there is to know about: What lenders are looking for How to close with confidence How to maintain sufficient liquidity How to protect your credit position for future deals What to do when deals go south Whether you’re planning to fix and flip or buy and hold, you can rest confidently that you are in prime position to not only avoid costly borrowing mistakes but also be set up for real estate success beyond what you thought possible with The Inside Guide to Funding Real Estate Investments by your side.

Real estate crowdfunding is no longer in its early stages of development and this book reveals how it has become mainstream in real estate finance and how you can benefit from it today. This special CrowdStreet edition includes an exclusive interview with CEO and founder Tore Steen to shed color commentary on the industry's growth and the market leader's evolution since 2013. Using over a million data points and proprietary analytics, UNLEASHED exposes secrets never seen before that show how crowdfunding has become a legitimate alternative to traditional (in-person) real estate finance for both sponsors raising money, and investors looking for opportunities. No longer restricted to the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, the hidden world of real estate investing has been revealed and in UNLEASHED you get the most detailed review of the new world of real estate industry finance ever written. Plus, you also get a free practical walkthrough (training) of how to access the exact same data used to conduct the analyses in the book so you can find every opportunity all in one place. If you have ever had any doubts about the power of real estate crowdfunding or thought it nothing but a sideshow, this book will explode all those myths. Here are just some of the real estate secrets revealed in book: A rare insight into how crowdfunding has grown from startup to mainstream. How real estate finance has changed forever. Why crowdfunding real estate is recession resilient. Which States have the most crowdfunded opportunities - and which the least. Crowdfunding is just for startups? Wrong! Why traditional ways of raising capital in person for real estate is over. Revealed! The total size of the real estate crowdfunding market. Based on our analysis of over 18,000 real estate projects financed over the last seven years, UNLEASHED reveals the truth behind real estate crowdfunding and how it has become an influential force in real estate finance. UNLEASHED banishes all doubts about the power crowdfunding has become to real estate finance and shows you how you can catch the next wave of growth in this transformational new industry. Find Tore Steen, Founder & CEO at CrowdStreet at CrowdStreet.com Find the author Adam Gower at GowerCrowd.com

Crowdfunding is nothing new. In fact, America was built and financed by crowdfunding. But in 1933 Congress passed the Securities Act, which shut the door on this most democratic means of raising capital and spreading wealth. In 2012, enjoying broad bipartisan support, congress threw the doors open again, passing the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups). Its intent was to stimulate growth of small businesses and startups, but an unexpected consequence of the Act was that the biggest beneficiary has been the real estate industry. Researching the origins of the JOBS Act, Dr. Adam Gower conducted a series of conversations with the people who lobbied for and wrote the laws that became the Act. What he discovered was that at no time had anyone thought that the real estate industry was a relevant constituency. Perplexed by this disconnect between what had been intended and what had happened, he talked to those who had been the very first real estate people to utilize the JOBS Act. These pioneers, all moving on parallel tracks, seeded the biggest, most transformational change to the real estate industry in history. This book uncovers these conversations with the people who created the laws and those who connected the dots to real estate. It weaves a thread through the labyrinthine processes of government, chronicling how the Act was conceived, formed, and ultimately signed into law, and it reveals how the visionaries who have revolutionized real estate capital formation embarked on their missions to change their industry forever. Learn how the JOBS Act, never expected to benefit real estate, has transformed the industry, changing the way capital is raised and syndications are formed forever and how an unintended consequence is helping almost everyone in America invest in real estate like never before.