crowdfunding
Welcome
To Your
MONEY
PATCH
Article by Tim Houghten
Money might not grow
on trees, but funding
portal Patch of Land
may have invented the
closest thing to it…
W
hether looking to grow your real
estate investments with access
to attractive capital, or boost
your yields with passive income invest-
ments, this is one patch of the web worth
checking out.
Named one of Entrepreneur magazine’s
‘100 brilliant companies of 2015’, Patch
of Land brings a unique twist to real
estate lending and crowdfund-
ing, and the proof is in the
performance.
base investment decisions on for those
looking to put their capital to work.
Recently, Patch of Land co-founder
and CEO Jason Fritton provided
a new perspective on how Patch
has created a new model of peer
to real estate lending.
There are two things which
really separate this platform
from everything else on the
landscape:
< PIONEERING
WIN-WINS >
While peer-to-peer
lending, and crowd-
funding has been
catching plenty of me-
dia attention, it hasn’t
always been a walk in
the park for fundraisers
and funders. Until now
the two main challenges
have been the amount of
work required for project
promoters, without any guar-
antee of funding. And then a lack
of track record, and organization to
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1. Patch offers ‘Pre-funding’,
gives you your loan, and then
raises funds from the crowd
2. Patch works together with insti-
tutional lenders instead of trying to
replace them
This creates a true hybrid where “real
estate, finance, and technology, converge.”
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