The loan agreed over coffee and documented on one page is the one most likely to produce a dispute.
Somewhere between borrowing from one person and taking money from three, the arrangement may have become a securities offering.
An individual lending their own capital against your deal. Cheaper than hard money, more flexible, and dependent on a relationship that takes month...
The least interesting part of the business and the one that decides most disputes. Records only help if they existed at the time.
The gap that catches people is not being uninsured. It is holding a policy that does not cover the thing that happened.
Investors hold enormous amounts of personal information about people who never chose to give it to them, and rarely think about what comes with that.
One of the most useful practices available to an investor, with consent requirements that differ by state and carry criminal exposure in some.
Investors carry obligations in two directions: to the seller they buy from and to the buyer they sell to. Most think only about the second.
The most heavily regulated activity in this business, and where the gap between common practice and actual requirements is widest.
Investors think fair housing is a landlord's concern. It applies to advertising, to conduct, and to the transactions themselves.
Outreach is the engine of this business and where the largest concrete exposure sits, because penalties are assessed per call and per message.
Every article about scaling describes the upside. The costs are real, predictable, and almost nobody warns you about them.
