Asset Based LLC Real Estate Investing Learning Group

Welcome to our learning group!

This site has been created to serve as a repository of information, resources and conversations around the concept of financing realestate and ultimately other enterprises through a LLC model or if you are in England or elsewhere a LLP model as opposed to a traditional mortgage or bank note. It is an equity or asset approach.

We will be conducting our active conversations on a yahoo listserve and referring to and using this site as a place to build on our efforts and knowledge. Feel free to post information here and to join our listserve. http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/coownership/?yguid=341605382

There are two of us who started this group with similar desires to become grounded in this model, exploring its strengths and weaknesses. One member Chuck Learned is developing a Community Investment Structure focusing on localizing our investments with triple bottom line objectives of providing Good paying equitable jobs, environmental integrity and reasonable returns for the investors. Chuck learned about this model from Chris Cook who has been fleshing this model out and writing about it in several publications. We will be referencing Chris's work. Chuck will share some introductory perspectives from a community development perspective the potential he sees with this model in the Wiki Pages and on this site.

Tawni is a MBA student at the University of San Francisco who is conducting her Masters thesis on comparing the attributes of this model with similar models and is looking forward to sharing her evolving research in the coming months and receiving feedback on her work and assumptions.

Please join our conversation, read this material, perhaps you have already been working with such a model for some time and can save us a great deal of effort! We are interested in all different perspectives.