What's normal and what's out of line? Are there times when I should be willing to pay more? This article explains how I evaluate these...

Comprehensive review of Equity Multiple, extension to club feeder, and the latest news on Prodigy Network, etc. (Usual disclaimer: I'm...

Investors allege a 40% loss on 84 William Street deal (along with being asked to pony-up $9.3 million more to avoid a 100% loss). This, afte

Comprehensive review of Broadstone Real Estate Access (BDREX); updated non-accredited guide to choosing funds; new feeder; latest news. ...

A step-by-step guide for the every-day, non-accredited investor. ​ (Usual disclaimer: I'm an investor and not a registered financial...

Deep-dive review of the newly revamped FundRise, Broadmark funds roll-call, Grubb feeder onboarding and industry news. (Usual...

SEC says wildly popular fund inflated returns for years and investors could lose 25% (or more) of their money. Also: how the "roach test"...

How to implement "passive-pairing" to drastically cut or wipe out your investment tax bill. (Disclaimer: I'm not an accountant,...

Dramatically cut or even wipe out your investment tax bill with "passive-pairing." (Disclaimer: I'm not an accountant, financial...

New deep-dive reviews of asset-based lender YieldStreet and distressed debt AHP Servicing. The private club hits 2,000 members and $2.1...

Rich Uncles REIT I shuts the gates on investor withdrawals as the fund takes a NAV loss and a board member resigns. Also, check out the...

2018 wasn't a fun year for traditional investors in public stock markets. But my real-estate portfolio happily hummed along with a...

A deep-dive review on new commerical real-estate platform Tom Wilson Properties. A downgrade of Instalend as founder alleged by SEC to...

Pundits and forecasters have an awful record of predicting exactly when and how bad recessions will be. However, it is possible to...

2 new platforms (CityVest and GroundFloor). Impact REIT shuts down. Core plus feeder fund update. (Usual disclaimer: I'm just an...

Post-mortem of a hard money loan that lost more than 60% and took years longer to resolve than originally projected...and during an...

Platform fails to raise money, reportedly could not find a buyer, fires most of staff and shuts down new investments. Some investors...

Newcomer platform Cadre refuses to answer public questions, but Mr. Google still has plenty to say. The private investor club joins the...

Recession stress testing, legal document analysis, etc. (Usual disclaimer: I'm just an investor expressing my personal opinion and am...

The sponsor quality checks: analyzing experience, track record, skin in the game and running them through the "death by Google" test....