4 Reasons Real Estate Crowdfunding is a Must For Your Portfolio

designraAlternative Finance, Community Capital, Crowd Investing, Real Estate Crowdfunding

Online Real Estate Investing

The Traditional Real Estate Investor Path Real estate has been the number one route to building wealth in the United States over the last two hundred years. According to the Collegeinvestor.com, about 90 percent of the world’s millionaires have been created by investing in real estate in the previous two centuries. For the average investor, real estate offers the best … Read More

Creating Complex, Adaptive Local Economies Using Investment Crowdfunding

Bill HustonAlternative Finance, Community Capital, Crowd Investing, Real Estate Crowdfunding

Feedback

Introduction I recently completed the Strong Towns 101 training to learn more about the Strong Towns movement that is taking North American cities by storm as its bottom-up approach to economic development is starting to resonate with cities large and small across the country as we all face the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our economy. The Pandemic … Read More

The Promise of Investment Crowdfunding

Bill HustonAlternative Finance, Community Capital, Crowdfunding

Introduction  Investment crowdfunding provides the best opportunity to transform our local  communities in the shortest amount of time. Investment crowdfunding, just like regular equity investment, allows entrepreneurs to sell shares of their business to private shareholders, shares that can potentially be sold later at a much higher price per share or they can become completely worthless in the process. Always … Read More

Building Local Crowdfunding Ecosystems for Main Street Businesses

Bill HustonAlternative Finance, Community Capital, Crowd Investing, Crowdfunding, Social Media

Local Business

Introduction To thrive in the modern business world it’s important to understand how to market your small independent business and this is going to be even harder in the post COVID-19 crisis small business environment. A recent survey shows establishing customer relationships through marketing and promotion is the second largest concern among independent business owners after securing access to capital. … Read More