Finance Bites™
How Does a Qualified Opportunity Zone Work? Could I Benefit From It?
Wally Smith: What, five, six years ago now, they came out with something called a QOZ. What is a QOZ? Jeff Hertz: Qualified opportunity zones was an idea that an…
Read MoreI’m a Young Real Estate Investor and I Don’t Want to Manage My Own Rental Properties, Is a DST for Me?
Jeff Hertz: And I guess just to broaden that a second, we talk oftentimes about DSTs, especially like a 721 strategy as being very attractive for somebody in the later…
Read MoreDoes a 721 UpREIT Help Me With Liquidity
Wally Smith: Well, to that point, let’s talk about the advent of the 721, the UPREIT, how that works. That’s really recognized now as being the answer for the liquidity…
Read MoreInstitutional Grade DSTs vs. Privately Owned DST Investments: Pros and Cons
Wally Smith: Okay. More institutional players seem to be getting into the space. I think we both saw a news clip this morning about one of the big companies opening…
Read MoreWhat to Expect in Returns When a DST Goes Full Cycle
Wally Smith: When one of these things ends, we call it going full cycle, what should somebody expect? They have a DST, one of the pieces that we have is…
Read MoreWhat is the Financial Time Commitment on a DST?
Wally Smith: And most of them are built on a 10 year chassis though, right? Jeff Hertz: Yeah. Exactly. Wally Smith: Is that statutory that it’d be a 10 year…
Read MoreFinding the Right DST Sponsor
Jeff Hertz: The managers of the DST obviously are something you want to spend a significant amount of time researching and feeling comfortable with. Wally Smith: Well, what you said…
Read More1 Advantage of a DST For a Real Estate Investor
Jeff Hertz: So trust law goes back hundreds of years, even pre the United States. So using a trust has a number of advantages for investors investing in a DST.…
Read MoreWhat Does a Delaware Statutory Trust Have to Do With Delaware?
Wally Smith: Absolutely. Let’s talk about DSTs then. That’s a focus of a lot of what we do, although we work with each of these tools out here, but the…
Read MoreThe Kinds of Tenant in Common Structures and Their Advantages
Wally Smith: We should talk about tenant in common, TICs. TICs have been around forever. There’s some big pros and cons about TICs. What’s good, what’s bad? Why don’t we…
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