News & analysis | Real Estate Crowdfunding

Ian Ippolito

Oct 13, 20174 min read

My Secret Weapons for Unearthing Great Rental Properties

Rent Range tool provides make-or-break rental and vacancy information. (Usual disclaimer: I'm just an investor and not a financial...

Ian Ippolito

Oct 12, 20176 min read

A Peek Inside My 7 Figure 2017 Real Estate Portfolio

How I'm preparing for the next recession with "quick" and "slow" investments. Note: this is an older version of this article series and...

Ian Ippolito

Oct 2, 20172 min read

2017-2018 Real Estate Crowdfunding Rankings and Reviews Released

Seismic changes have split the industry in two. (Note: this is the ranking for accredited investor options. Nonaccredited rankings...

Ian Ippolito

Sep 18, 20172 min read

Realty Shares Ends the Real Estate Crowdfunding VC Drought in a Huge Way

$28 million is first successful, major raise since at least early 2016. In the first few years of the Real Estate Crowdfunding...

Ian Ippolito

Sep 16, 20175 min read

How to protect your financial life from the fallout of the massive Equifax hack

More than half of Americans may be seriously compromised. On September 7, Equifax announced that the most massive and severe hack of...

Ian Ippolito

Sep 15, 20171 min read

Realty Shares exits the residential hard-money-loan origination business

Lima One announced that it has acquired the residential loan origination business of Realty Shares (which is sometimes called...

Ian Ippolito

Sep 15, 20173 min read

Hackers easily stealing $ millions from investors and consumers -- using only a phone number

It took only 7 minutes for Jared Kenna to lose the nest egg he'd spent over 2 decades accumulating . As he watched in stunned horror ,...