Sharestates Surpasses $1B in Loan Originations; Celebrates With $100,000 Giveaway
Sharestates continues their ongoing momentum and disruption in the real estate investment space, offering $100,000 to investors to celebrate their $1 billion milestone Online real estate investment platform, Sharestates, announced they have surpassed $1 Billion [...]
AAPL Member Spotlight | Anthony Geraci, Esq.
From time to time we like to highlight our members and help introduce them to the rest of our member network and followers. This month, we have a member spotlight… with a twist! Anthony Geraci [...]
The 2018 Omnibus Bill
What $1.3 trillion of federal spending can mean for you While the president's budget blueprint from last year proposed dramatic cuts in discretionary spending, the March 2018 omnibus budget signed into law was remarkable both [...]
How Legislation Can Move Fintech Into the Digital Economy
Congress has opportunities to address some of the challenges financial technology firms face in the lending sector. The pace of financial technology innovation in the alternative lending space is nothing short of phenomenal, but it [...]
ATTOM Data Solutions Launches New Online Marketing List Creation Platform
New ‘ATTOM List’ Platform Features Expanded Data Footprint with Data for 155 Million Properties, Industry-Standard Interface; Search Filters Include Property & Owner Location, Occupancy, Equity, Foreclosure Status ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier [...]
PeerStreet Funds $1 Billion in Loans
PeerStreet continues to build momentum seeking disruption of the mortgage industry PeerStreet, an award-winning platform for investing in real estate backed loans announced $1 billion in loans have been funded through its marketplace since launch. [...]
Ignite Funding Surpassed $500M in Trust Deed Investments
Ignite Funding Proves Trust Deed Investments Build Communities and Wealth for Investors with Half a Billion Funded Ignite Funding announced they surpassed half a billion dollars May 18, 2018, in Trust Deed investments on behalf [...]
SGF Contracting Services Inc. Announces New Name
SGF Contracting Services Inc. is now Radius Renovation Group, a name signifying its commitment to providing full circle renovation services to real estate investors SGF Contracting Services Inc., a national provider of rehab and renovation [...]
Toorak Capital Partners Reaches $1 Billion Milestone
Toorak Capital Partners Closes Increased KKR Investment as Company Reaches $1 Billion Milestone Toorak Capital Partners (“Toorak”) announced that KKR has increased its investment in the company to $250 million, after initially committing $75 million [...]
Affinity Worldwide makes equity investment in OwnAmerica
Purchase better connects real estate investors to education, property acquisition services and insurance products Affinity Worldwide has made an equity investment in OwnAmerica. The purchase deepens the partnership between OwnAmerica and two of Affinity Worldwide’s [...]
Bringing Mezzanine Capital to the Fix & Flip Market
Mezzanine capital can help private money lenders win new business. Mezzanine capital, aka “Mezz,” is essentially preferred equity or second mortgage debt that is needed to bridge the gap in the capital stack between first [...]
Alternatives Within the Alternatives
Don’t overlook pursuing lucrative segments with your tax-advantaged retirement dollars. When individual retirement account (IRA) providers talk about how your self-directed IRA can invest in almost any alternative asset, we really mean it. Common strategies [...]
6 Ways to Improve Your Fund
Adopting these approaches will help reduce your liabilities and foster success. Managing a private lending fund is not easy. You need the help of accountants, compliance experts and, of course, reliable salespeople to ensure that [...]
Simple Ways to Thwart Employee Turnover
How to retain your best employees—and even encourage them to recruit others like themselves. Have you ever totaled the dollars you spend to advertise job openings? Or, calculated the time human resources and other management [...]
PeerStreet Hires Chief Real Estate Officer
John Devereux will lead the firm’s strategic expansion across the real estate industry PeerStreet, an award-winning platform for investing in real estate backed loans, is excited to announce the appointment of John Devereux as Chief [...]
AAPL Member Spotlight | Bill Fairman
Meet AAPL member Bill Fairman! Bill is a co-founder of Carolina Hard Money and has been an AAPL member for five years. When he's not building his business and helping investors create passive wealth, you'll [...]
Sharestates Changes the Game with User Experience
Sharestates Launches New Online Portals with Goal of Simplifying Lending and Borrowing Process – First in the Real Estate Investing Space Online real estate investment platform, Sharestates, announced the launch of new online user portals that [...]
Fix and Flips in Real Estate IRAs
Answering your frequently asked questions Buy low, sell high. Finding stocks or other publicly traded securities at the right bargain may prove difficult, but an under-priced property can be tough to miss. Unlike the countless [...]
Empowered Employees Are Key to Entrepreneurial Success
I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. At an early age, I delivered a paper route, then ran a lawn cutting business, and later speculated in concert tickets. These experiences confirmed that I wanted to work for myself. So, when I graduated college—with a business management degree and [...]
5 Simple Tips to Fix Flawed Marketing
Avoiding these common mistakes can make your marketing more effective. If you want clients who are not your mom or grandma, you must market for your business to grow. Marketing isn’t exactly rocket science, but [...]


