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 [...]
The Pitfalls of Trust Deed Investing: Lack of Diversification
Part 3 of a 3-part series Trust deed investing is generally considered a safe investment, but there are risks—just as there are for any investment. In this three-part series, we are tackling some of those [...]
Fair Housing and Fair Lending Protections in 2018
The Quiet Battle over Obama-Era Regulations If you think you missed some knock down, drag out battle over the nation’s Fair Housing and Fair Lending protections over the last year, you would be wrong. There [...]
HR Plays Key Role Preventing Discrimination
Human Resources professionals are asked to put together training on a variety of topics that can range from legal issues such as harassment in the workplace, managing requests for FMLA time off, and what constitutes [...]
Arixa Capital Hosts Upcoming 12th Annual Real Estate Symposium
LOS ANGELES—Arixa Capital, one of California's leading non-bank lenders to real estate investors and developers, will host the 12th Annual Real Estate Symposium May 2, 2018. The event will take place on the UCLA campus, [...]
Workplace Bullying: Beyond Finger-Pointing to a Culture of Respect
Watching someone pawn their failures off or blame others for their mistakes is contagious and detrimental, particularly in the workplace. It may seem inconsequential but in an organization where blame is the norm, people are [...]
Raising the Standards
The Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) was signed 50 years ago. The Act “prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of residential dwellings, and in other residential [...]
AAPL Member Spotlight | Ray Sturm
Meet AAPL member Ray Sturm. Ray is the co-founder and CEO of AlphaFlow who has been an AAPL member since 2016. He is a familiar face from the annual conferences, even leading a panel discussion [...]
Special Profile: Erica LaCentra
You may recognize RCN Capital's marketing manager, Erica LaCentra from Private Lender magazine’s Lender Limelight, AAPL’s Education Advisory Committee, or maybe noticed when she received one of AAPL’s very first Excellence Awards! We were fortunate [...]
Private Lending’s Critical Role in Urban Revitalization
Revitalization …. it’s happening in cities across the country from Atlanta to Detroit to Memphis. As reflected in census data, a diverse mix of residents are moving into urban areas, bringing new life to once [...]
Women Are Key to Empowering Other Women
Women can be a powerful force when they work to strengthen one another. What does it take for women to support each other to reach their full potential? More to the point—why is it [...]
