The author has a yardi.com email.. And the little bit of research I did shows yardi is involved in property management software and real estate. Source: about 1 year 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: almost 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: about 3 years ago