That means if you’re not working with me, you’re probably not even hearing about these opportunities.3️⃣ E-Commerce and Supply Chains Are Driving DemandWe all know e-commerce is reshaping the game, and Rochester’s location gives it an edge.

thanksRyan  @Ryan RuppertShopify is a great platform for e-commerce, but it might not be the best fit for managing STRs in the long term.

Industrial properties tend to have more stable demand due to the increasing reliance on e-commerce, logistics, and warehousing.

says he invests note funds into 3 e-commerce businesses and 1 Mastermind business and 1 Business that puts on Broadway Musicals.

I've done Crypto, stocks, businesses, ecommerce, trading bots, ponzi schemes etc. 

Hey Bigger Pockets community, I'm just starting out in Step 1 (get educated) on what I want to become a successful career in real estate investment.I also currently run an e-commerce business that is currently completely online, but would benefit from having a brick & mortar storefront, and I had an idea that maybe using the investment capital I'm looking to allocate into real estate into a commercial property my business can operate out of until I decide to sell the property in or rent it out to another business.I am obviously very naive when it comes to the complexity of any good real estate deal (especially commercial VS residential), but I'm hoping to spend as much time learning from everyone here who is on their journey as well.My main concern with the idea of buying commercial to operate my business out of it that I might struggle to rent it out afterwards and that there may likely be depreciation in the commercial real estate market over the next 5 years.I understand there is a lot of nuance depending on the local market but I'm guessing commercial is even less of a "safe" bet than finding a solid residential deal to leverage in some way.

But e-commerce has been around for several decades now and continues to grow.”In the lengthy “Marco Santarelli” YouTube videos, he explains that small business lending through promissory notes generates higher returns for investors than treasury notes, hard money lending, and real estate trust deed notes ( Link, at 29:42).

(e-commerce company that was looking into bankruptcy last year, mastermind businesses, putting on broadway type musicals, including one about Neil Diamond) Their website is fairly opaque as to how they generate their profits in order to pay note investors the very high yields they offer, 14-23%.

A post on the official Norada Capital Management website from 2022 (attached screenshots in addendum), boldly states the following:“Norada Capital Management offers investors opportunities to invest in Promissory Notes with fixed rates of return ranging from 12% up to 17.5% per year,” ( Link ).In explaining the use of proceeds from the promissory notes—specifically the entities Norada Capital Management, a private equity firm, supposedly lends to in order to generate these high annual rates, the company states that:“Three of those five categories that our company invests in as a private equity firm include e-commerce-based businesses very lucrative area, especially if you’re in the right area of e-commerce.

., SaaS, subscription-based e-commerce).