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 followI wanted income without becoming a landlord and I wanted to start small enough that a mistake wouldn't matter. So I put 2k each into three pooled offerings on two platforms, rough…
Small one, but it cost me real money and nobody warned me. Put $6k into a crowdfunded equity deal, first year went fine, distributions totaled about $310. Happy enough with that f…
Closed the loop on the first full cycle of this last month, so here are the actual numbers rather than the plan. $46k deployed across 21 debt positions on three platforms, most of…
The product page said short term, average duration under a year, and there was a redemption request option. I read that as a savings account with a better rate. It isn't. I reques…
I back these because I know renovation work and I thought that gave me an edge reading the scope. It gave me an edge reading the scope. It gave me nothing on the capital stack, wh…
First 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…
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…
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…
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…