Freeze your Credit – Protection from the Equifax Hack
  • Freeze your Credit – Protection from the Equifax Hack

    Freeze your Credit – Protection from the Equifax Hack

    With the recent hack of Equifax and perhaps 50% of all US resident’s personal information exposed, now is a good time to consider a freeze of your credit.  Since most readers of this blog are accredited, we have the most to lose. Marketers would like you to believe that a $50 credit monitoring service is…

  • Tax Implications for the Real Estate Crowdfunding Investor

    Tax Implications for the Real Estate Crowdfunding Investor

    Its Tax time! That dreaded time of the year for everyone, but especially for real estate crowdfunding investors. I’ve competed my own taxes for over 30 years and I’ve used TurboTax for the last 15+ years. After spending a mind-numbing week entering close to 100 K1’s into Turbo Tax and trying to determine which states…

  • CrowdDD & 506 Investor Group – The Crowdfunding Review Sites Evolution

    CrowdDD & 506 Investor Group – The Crowdfunding Review Sites Evolution

    I am often asked how CrowdDD and the 506 Investor Group came to be.  I discovered equity crowdfunding from an article about Angel List in November of 2013.  I invested with a couple of syndicates on Angel.co and on FoundersClub as an angel investor.  I quickly learned I did not have to knowledge or skills for investing…