You're in trading with Etrade with a comparatively tiny amount of money and playing around in Fundrise with a pittance.

The objective is not to make money whatsoever (hence, a non-profit), the idea is to give the tenant the easiest route to ownership by letting them use Section 8 assistance to help them build equity.

If you do frequent / high volume lending and operate it in a business-like fashion, it may rise to what the IRS calls "trade or business."

During a recent HUD purchase, I noticed the listing agent/agency was a different company than my own agent (something I noticed on both Zillow and the flyer in the home), which is of course not unusual whatsoever. 

From what I can tell, if you are in Vegas for work a lot, going to trade shows, meetings etc, then this could be a way to offset your travel costs.

If the same type of assets are trading at 5.6%, then you will know you are in the ball park. 

I’m a GC and electrician by trade so I’m planning on staying in one unit, completely upgrading it and move on to the next units.

We can just have a chat and trade stories.

Located in Southern California, Inland Empire - I'm an E-Commerce Sales Strategist & Online Marketer by trade (mostly working with Amazon) but have been looking at getting into investments for a while now.

If I was doing lending (which I don't) I would want to know the foreclosure laws and tricks of the trade for every state and county I lend in.