And courts recognize that not every contract is feasibly enforceable simply as liquidated damages.

Publicly traded mREITs in liquid stock market (no barrier to entry, 100% passive) give 10-15% monthly dividend, so it makes sense for the returns from private lending to exceed at least 15%.

As we create, manage, and liquidate more funds to create a track record and continue to provide information of value through content based marketing, I believe that our efforts will snowball to the point where raising capital won't be a future problem.Increasing efficiencies is an ongoing process and is handled on an ad hoc basis depending on demand, cost, and discovery.

The plan was to move onto that property, but we might be better off liquidating it into more flexible assets.

Not unless you have a long history with them and your liquidity and net worth are on the high side.

We plan on aggressively purchasing more in the next 3 years by allocating by liquidating some of our stock portfolio to REI3) We have an old trust, and thinking about creating a new one so we can include our new propertiesSo the questions are:1) When is a good time to think about putting our properties in a LLC as a way to shield our other assets.

We came to the realization in the last year or two that raising capital was very tough and required a much different skillset then acquiring, managing, and liquidating NPNs.

I have $120k in company stock which I liquidated this year since the stock is trading at all time highs and next year isn't looking good for the company. 

I would be targeting ~65% of UPB and hoping for the first couple of times to find a seller who really needed the liquidity.

Listen to Podcasts4. browse real estate/equity forums.Stocks are easier to get into because the investment itself is so liquid and can have a relatively low entry point.Real Estate on the other hand can get a little bit more complicated and harder to get into.