Although receiving a higher return is a very important aspect of Crowdfunding, the potential higher return also increases the risk so investors need to factor that in when contemplating each investment offering.Out of all my investment platforms, I have made the highest percentage returns on Ifunding.

When I say in the process, I mean we have secured lending, have evaluated and attempted purchase of 1 candidate (couldn't close the deal) and are now moving on to another candidate that we like.I've been reading around the forums about some of the financial evaluations and am working to understand why Net Present Value of free cash flows is not being used more in the evaluation of a property.It is interesting to understand the CoC as an income statement percentage and it is certainly interesting to do some quick calculations with perhaps the 50% rule.But until you take a series of cash flows, discount them by a Weighted Average Cost of capital, and determine if you can clear your next best alternative (stock market, paying down debt), how do you know if you really have a something that will make you money?

Some people add a small percentage (3%) to accommodate future values but I usually keep it conservative better to be as accurate as possible.

Opportunity 2 is negative cash flow and gross monthly rent as percentage of purchase price is half for Opportunity 2 vs Opportunity 1.

I suppose I could have a set scale of profit ranges that tied to our percentages, from a high of 50/50 to a low of 100/0 if the sky fell.

They work on a contingency fee (they take a percentage of the money they save you).

That being said I am required to disclose if I own any percentage of anything, and I have to do a financial disclosure annually not to mention a background investigation every so often.

Since tax sales are such a small portion of their business and it is common if not rampant to have problems, it is easy to eliminate tax sales from your title business and eliminate a whole host of problems for a small percentage of your business.There are a couple things that you can do.

I'm in the military and half of my pay is tax free and when you add in depreciation from the property to our taxable income, it is in the lowest percentage.

If it is flipping, you could consider offering a percentage of the net profit.