Invest in Real Estate with as Little as $5,000

Commercial real estate investing in other contexts often involves large investment amounts and limited regional opportunities. Case Investments Group, on the other hand, allows accredited and institutional investors to invest for as little as $1,000, all from the convenience of an investor’s laptop or tablet computer. This means that investors have the ability to participate in opportunities that historically may have been available only to large institutions. You’ll also be investing “passively” — similar to stocks and bonds — so that you don’t need to directly be concerned with the management headaches associated with a property.

Case Investments Group does some initial review of potential investment opportunities and then, with the ones it moves forward with, presents the relevant investment information in an easy-to-use format so that investors can make their own decisions about which opportunities they want to pursue. These opportunities involve a variety of property types, are across a number of regional geographies, and can relate to debt, equity, or “preferred equity” opportunities. Once an investment has been made, investors are be able to monitor the progress of an investment via an investor “dashboard” — again, all from the convenience of your living room. These dashboards contain earnings history, management updates, and other follow-on information to be reviewed.

For additional information about investing in commercial real estate generally, see our article Why Investors Like Commercial Real Estate.

The frequency of any investor returns depends on the type of investment. Typically, equity investments have distributions on a quarterly basis, while debt and preferred equity investments involve payouts on a monthly schedule. An investor’s share of any distributions is generally transferred directly into the same bank account that was initially used by the investor for the contribution of the original investment amount, and typically occurs within a few days of Case Investments Group receipt of such distributions.

On debt investments, the monthly payments of interest are dependent on Case Investments Group having received the correlating payments from the borrower on the corresponding borrower loan. Preferred equity investments are designed to have “current” payments made on a monthly basis and then an “accrued” payout that is payable at the expiration of the investment period. Normal equity investments are usually designed to have investors get quarterly distributions and also to participate in any net appreciation realized when the property is sold. An investor’s share of any of these distributions will be deposited directly into the bank account designated by such investor.

Payout schedules cannot be guaranteed, of course, nor can there be any guarantee as to return rates or the return of investor capital generally, regardless of the structure of any investment opportunity.

Unfortunately, even self-directed IRAs still require custodian involvement and approval before an investment can be consummated. This process creates significant delay and involves manual processes that reduce the efficiency of the Case Investments Group platform. We continue to evaluate our processes here, however, so if you are interested in investing through an IRA then please contact us and we’ll see what we can do.

If you are able to link your self-directed IRA with a bank account and can transfer funds immediately, then we may be in a better position to accept the investment; let us know and we’ll likely be able to accommodate this situation.

We go to great lengths to ensure the security of all our members and our data and use Secure Sockets Layer. SSL is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. We use 128-bit encryption, which is the same level of encryption used by top national banks. We are also regularly audited by third party security firms to ensure compliance with the most rigorous security standards.

For added protection, we never store your banking information on our servers and we automatically log you out of your account after 30 minutes of inactivity.