Seller gets a $15k personal loan to cover the gap - check prosper.com or bestegg.com or one of those "fast cash" online lenders that do 3-5 yr loans. Source: about 1 year ago

Have you considered a loan from prosper.com at a better interest rate from peer to peer lending? Also are you maxing out your 401k opportunities at work? Source: almost 2 years ago

Check out prosper.com. They offer personal loans that are funded by other people, not banks. Source: about 2 years ago

If you absolutely have to, never ever touch 401k... can you afford to withdraw from your credit union? Or sign up for peer-to-peer lending? Unsure if $2500 is too small of a request but check out lendingtree.com or prosper.com and see what's up. Source: over 2 years ago

Just apply for Credit Card to build credit history. May be some bank will ask you to deposit $500 for Credit Card if you don't have credit history. Just Try prosper.com or creditkarma.com they might not ask to deposit and issue you Credit Card . If you employed then apply you will get soon. Source: over 2 years ago

I've found that careful accredited investor real estate deals can consistently provide returns close to owned real estate with less hassle and with less risk. For these types of deals you can look at sites like realtymogul.com, crowdstreet.com, fundrise.com, and realcrowd.com. There are more of these and there are also sites that are developer sites that have similar offers. I use these for real estate deals. ... Source: over 1 year ago

Another platform I have not much experience with is crowdstreet.com, recommended by Financial Samurai. Does anyone know if this one is safe? It invests in real estate in so-called 18-hour cities in the US. Source: over 2 years ago

FYI, 15% is a tad low for self storage investment as a limited partner. You can find one on crowdstreet.com right now for 16%. I have no connection with Federal Storage but they're a well known and very experienced self storage operation. Source: over 2 years ago

My list is: Trion-properties.com (West coast apt buildings) Mccompanies.com (rehab large apt buildings in the southwest) Crowdstreet.com (medical buildings and new construction projects nationwide). Source: about 3 years ago

Most 401k's have very limited investment choices - certain families of mutual funds, most being quite broad. That's fine for the slice of savings / investment that most folks are allocating to them. Investing in individual stocks can be interesting and if you have a diversified portfolio of 10 or so high quality stocks which may not be in your 401k's funds you won't have to fear one company's performance. Due to... Source: over 3 years ago