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....

Newcomer Holdfolio has a shaky start in the rankings. Plus two funds slash minimums exclusively for club members, three funds give...

Newcomer ArborCrowd leaps to #5 in the rankings. Plus a new private club forum, private webinar for WFP Income fund and promising new...

2 new platform reviews, 4 new hard money loan funds, new deals (self storage, multifamily and residential), and the latest news about...

In part 1 of this article, we talked about how hackers are stealing millions of dollars from investors and consumers using just a phone...

5 new comprehensive platform reviews, latest industry news, new deal library, and 5 new off-platform deals. (Usual disclaimer: I'm...

The similarities to the years leading up to the “Apartment Recession” of 1972 are eerie. If history repeats itself, the end won’t be...

Contrary to popular belief, audits are not designed to be thorough enough to catch most fraud. And even with that low bar, the so-called...

Rising interest rates, skyrocketing property prices, and slowing rents are causing banks to pull out. So sponsors are hitting-up...

Preserving principal and reducing risk with a deliberate portfolio-matching strategy. (Usual disclaimer: I'm just an investor expressing...

Property-level due diligence basics: "pro-forma popping," sensitivity analysis, and "stall and see" (Usual disclaimer: I'm just an...

BREIT is by far the largest and one of the best diversified core+ strategy funds (which along with core has historically outperformed all...