This entry treats real estate crowdfunding from the capital-deployment angle: an investor systematically allocating capital across crowdfunded deals and platforms to earn investment returns, rather than the individual dipping into a single project.
Log in to followFirst time putting money into a crowdfunded deal instead of swinging a hammer on my own project. $5k into a value-add apartment deal on a platform, 82 units, plan was renovate uni…
I've got a sleeve I want to put into crowdfunded deals over time, and the sequencing is where I keep stalling. Not the amount, the pacing. One way: pick a couple of platforms, tak…
Started with 62k I'd carved out of the service business over a few years and a plan to put it into deal-level real estate without owning anything. Eleven positions across three pl…
18k into a value-add multifamily deal on a platform I'd used twice before. 64 units, midwest secondary market, sponsor's plan was interior renovations on turnover, push rents abou…
Underwriting is what I spend my days on, so I want to sanity check the portfolio construction side rather than the deal side. If a typical equity offering has some real probabilit…
I've got 15k sitting from a good year in the business, and there's a chance I'll want it for equipment in about two years. Not a certainty, maybe 40%. That rules out most of what…
I spread 12k across six equity deals on one platform over about eight months, 2k each. Different states, different property types, two small multifamily, one self storage, one ind…
19 positions, four platforms, first commitment in 2019, last in 2024. Average check just under 5k, about 96k deployed total. Ten equity, nine debt. I tracked it the way I track ev…
Service business pays the bills, so the investing side is meant to be hands off. Over about two years I put $88k into eight equity positions across three platforms, deliberately s…
Two offerings sitting side by side on the same platform. One is a senior loan on an apartment building, 10% annual interest, 24 month term, $1,000 minimum. The other is equity in…
I've got 3k I can commit and no property, no experience, and a lot of tabs open, so this is my first move of any kind. What I've found: one platform will let me into a pooled fund…
Put $12k into a non-traded pooled real estate vehicle on a platform two and a half years ago. Set it and forgot it, exactly as intended, while I saved for a rental down payment. T…
A few flips in and I'm hitting the ceiling on what I can fund myself, so I'm looking at going passive on some of my capital. The platform pages say things like "no investor fees"…
I want real estate exposure that doesn't turn into a second job, so crowdfunding looked like the obvious place to start. Where I've landed: one pooled fund, 1k minimum, roughly 1%…