The magic of real estate is buying a property and creating $50-100k in equity through $25k of strategic renovation while you are 4x-5x leveraged (for example...I'm obviously just making up numbers). 

Some have more than $1 million in equity while others have less.4.

Assuming you paid $430k, put down 10% ($43k) so have a loan balance around $387k and $100k in equity means it’s worth $487k.

Sorry to hear mate 🙏No shame in loosing.It's how you recover and pick yourself back up.If you don't, then that's a shameI have lost more than I can count and so have many others on this forum.Losses are part of business and life in general.Our time and energy comes at a price.The biggest price is the emotional one.I prefer learning from losses as much as possible and doing my best to not repeat the same mistakes.Also, not dwelling on it for long and not living in the past to avoid further emotional drag and doubt about moving forward.Personally, I also don't get involved in lawsuits or collections and consider every loss as my own fault.Moving forward smarter and more experienced.Moving forward and doing my best to make more than what I have lost.I hope that helps and God Bless  yup 08 to 2011 I lost 10 million in equity.. and had to start over in 2012..

in a few short years 1 property has produced over a $1/2 million in equity, thousands in cash flow, was leverage to buy another property which does the same and leverage to buy a small cash flowing business. 

I definitely prefer this option as the whole point is to get built-in equity.

Promissory loan notes are “secured” by Norada Capital Management where, in our taped call, is a $120 million-dollar public company with $70 million in owed loan notes to investors and $50 million in “equity” which is all a lie.

These guy is talking a lot about how great the city in his targeted investment but very little time going deep dive into his Financial.Our friend Grocapitus is targeting the naivest tech-background rich folks that's rich in equity but poor in financial analysis capacity (and bit arrogant too sometimes because they think because they rich due to tech so everything else was easy).Our friend here  likes to cherrypick market stats that's irrelevant for his investment at his deck.

In another year or two that buyer is going to be sitting on 500k in equity easy......

Basically his premise is nothing makes money like money and that's what creates wealth inequality.I recommend this Econtalk podcast interview with him, the economist host does not back away from challenging him.http://www.econtalk.org/thomas-piketty-on-inequality-and-capital-in-the-21st-century/