Tag: real estate investment
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Blockchain for Good: Can Smart Contracts Play a Community-Building Role?
Holding the deed to real estate is long associated with stability and financial security. What if some of that security could be shared by — and build up— communities? This article is a thought experiment. Let’s imagine how things could play out if local residents could invest small amounts in a building. How would this…
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Latest in House Hacking: The Influencer Edition
Back in 2020, it seemed to be everywhere. But we wondered just how persistent “house hacking” would be. Turns out the trend has stayed popular on real estate investment websites, in spite of (or maybe because of) a hard-to-crack housing market. House hacking is really just about buying and renting out real estate. Yet it…
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“Hustle Culture”: Is This the Trouble With the Housing Market?
Some people are fed up with the “hustlers” of the U.S. real estate market. They criticize celebrity investors such as Grant Cardone, the host of a podcast titled “This Is Not Your Daddy’s Economy,” accusing him of promoting a get-rich-quick philosophy that exposes small investors to extreme risk.but the The hustle mentality in general, they…